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by tomlock 10y ago
One of the points made in the article is that men still have a higher wage in the field. Discrimination leads to bias. If wage/gender matchups were a total coinflip we'd still expect around 25% in each of the quadrants along the
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by tomlock 10y ago
If after 50 years we have clear evidence that men aren't getting published or hired in science in relatively similar quantities as women of color we probably won't consider all history as being discriminatory against women. Howeve
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It is clear to me from reading your previous comment that you've made an effort to understand the arguments made. That's a breath of fresh air. >Not scream at the author's speaking engagements until he leaves the room. St
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by tomlock 10y ago
Totally agree with your sentiment but my initial point was made against the argument that the left was intellectually weak because some of its members shout down the opposition.
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by tomlock 10y ago
I think you're painting the left as bad and the right as good. There are pretty clearly bad actors on each side, and each side is a broad church. I think its very apt that you use MAD as an analogy, because I'm analogously all f
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by tomlock 10y ago
Your characterization made me grin, as someone who is on the other side to you. >That intellectual ideal is seen as something by and for the powerful old white men who control power structures, including and especially academia. Lets b
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by tomlock 10y ago
The flipside of this is the reactionary multitudes who spout 'sjw' or 'virtue signalling' or 'socialist' when someone on the left questions the status-quo. Its a problem on both sides.
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by tomlock 10y ago
She never attended University. Do you think she just wasn't interested in attending?
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by tomlock 10y ago
>In some fields of engineering (EE, for example), women actually get paid more (104% last I checked). As you can see, you disagree with the commenter I was responding to. They think women only get paid more in "some" fields, n
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by tomlock 10y ago
>pay disparities in most tech fields almost disappear. So what you're saying is there are pay disparities in most tech fields. Aka, women face continued pay disparity.
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by tomlock 10y ago
I can think of a few voluntary exchanges that are exploitative. For instance, if I offer someone a life-saving drug if they give me their house - they can voluntarily enter the agreement, or not. I think we can safely say that in at least
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by tomlock 10y ago
>In another idea that never reached the market, he explored lease financing for funerals. >“We like niches where we’re dealing with emotional borrowers,” Wunderlich said. Well, fuck this guy. There is a clear difference in power and
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by tomlock 10y ago
I got that one, but the rest confused me - I need to work with lambdas more!
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"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. ... They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime.
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by tomlock 10y ago
I think Trump may have kickstarted that narrative, because of that whole thing about Mexican immigrants (and some of them I'm sure are nice people), and how he banned the citizens of 7 countries from returning or entering the US. I thi
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by tomlock 10y ago
As the world feminist army sweeps the nation - the alt-right will form a guerilla force - middle-aged white men will rise up to fight - I can see it now. It should be possible to statistically distinguish the factors of being poor and being
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by tomlock 10y ago
Yeah, but if a French historian can be detained for having the wrong type of visa how am I gonna fare as a tattooed hipster aussie with no respectability?!?! :O As for the injustices suffered by RV drivers, I cannot comment. Although, I&#x
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by tomlock 10y ago
Even as an American citizen but an Australian resident - these stories make me afraid to travel to the US. Might the border agents find me to be unacceptably foreign?
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by tomlock 10y ago
>But it should be possible to take that [being a man] into account statistically. So why not take being an immigrant "into account statistically"? It seems like the anti-PC folk have some things they think we should be PC about
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Based on what data?
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What are the reasons to assume it won't? Keep in mind that a lot of these first world countries have an aging population - so younger people being imported is good because it brings in more taxpayers versus pensioners. See this bloomb
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by tomlock 10y ago
>I think it would make sense to reduce the number of poor people. This could be achieved in a number of ways. For example, poor swedes could be deported and rich immigrants could take their place - this would actually be more effective
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by tomlock 10y ago
>The possibility of Trump winning does not exonerate the accuracy of the odds presented by polls. The odds were not correct, and the polling data was flawed. If there are 10% odds of something happening and it happens after one event, th
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by tomlock 10y ago
>Polling was incapable of accurately determining what the odds really were. Nope. If polling couldn't determine what the odds really were, the probabilities, which showed it was well within the realm of possibility that trump would
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by tomlock 10y ago
So saying an event has a 10% chance of happening, and then it happening after one roll of the dice, is enough reason to doubt the data?
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by tomlock 10y ago
So you think it would be fair to suggest the same restrictions on poor people as people are suggesting we place on immigrants?
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by tomlock 10y ago
Most analysis showed he had some chance of winning, and he won by a relatively low margin. If you rolled a ten sided dice once and it came up with a ten, would you feel repeated tests that showed there was a 10% chance of that outcome sho
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by tomlock 10y ago
Not sure what stats back up this claim. I've heard people say this movement is anti-globalization, about the economy, anti-PC, anti-establishment - yadda yadda yadda. Everyone has a theory, and it seems like people just choose the on
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by tomlock 10y ago
What do you believe in? I ask since your post seems to suggest you believe there isn't a problem, that you may feel the issue has been played up. edit: <3
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Why did you bring it up then?

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