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Re:Why I won’t give talks about being a woman in tech by mark-r on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @11:48AM (#12129953)
These numbers tell you where the bump is in the bell curve, but tell you nothing about who's out on the long tail. Learn to treat people as individuals, not statistics.

This list also says nothing about cause/effect. Do the scores represent innate aptitude, or rather the result of a lifetime of societal biases?

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Re:Why I won’t give talks about being a woman in tech by lmmlzxx on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @12:32PM (#12130332)
> result of a lifetime of societal biases.

Not just societal biases, but simple demographic realities that are not controlled for at all looking solely at scores on a test.

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