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Re:Why I won’t give talks about being a woman in tech by Tcepsa on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @11:54AM (#12129996)
Going by your extremely tenuous suggestion that genetics is an accurate predictor of math/engineering aptitude because of how people of certain ethnicities or sex perform on the SAT, we should have a distribution in tech that looks like this:

- Asian/Pacific Islander = 29.6%

- White = 26.4%

- Mexican American = 22.8%

- Black = 22.1%

- Men = 51.6%

- Women = 48.4%

In other words, roughly equal numbers of all of the demographics (specifically _not_ an overwhelming majority of White Men).

So even if your argument were valid it seriously undermines your point.

Re:Why I won’t give talks about being a woman in tech by drdeca on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @12:05PM (#12130103)
Not that it likely impacts your point much, but does this adjust for population sizes?
Re:Why I won’t give talks about being a woman in tech by Tcepsa on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @02:40PM (#12131402)
I totally misinterpreted the data; for some reason I assumed it was the number of students from each group that scored above some threshold, rather than the average score of that group.

My calculations are completely garbage, and I would withdraw the comment but it looks like I can't at this point.

Re:Why I won’t give talks about being a woman in tech by tzs on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @12:59PM (#12130582)
Aren't you making a big assumption about linearity?
Re:Why I won’t give talks about being a woman in tech by Tcepsa on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @02:42PM (#12131420)
I think it's more that I totally misinterpreted the data. For some reason I assumed it was the number of students from each group that scored above some threshold, rather than the average score of that group.

My calculations are completely garbage, and I would withdraw the comment but it looks like I can't at this point.

Re:Why I won’t give talks about being a woman in tech by buckbova on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @11:56AM (#12130021)
And I bet this would be true, if women didn't gravitate moreso to the natural sciences.