Is Silicon Valley Discriminating Against Men and Asians?

Re:Is Silicon Valley Discriminating Against Men and Asians? by maverick_iceman on Saturday October 15, 2016 @04:53AM (#12713291)

There's no empirical proof that diversity is a good thing. Historically people seemed to do fine without any diversity. E.g. most of modern science and technology was discovered/invented by white men. Lack of diversity didn't become a handicap for them.

Disclaimer: I'm a non-white male.

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Re:Is Silicon Valley Discriminating Against Men and Asians? by solipsism on Saturday October 15, 2016 @05:38AM (#12713393)

most of modern science and technology was discovered/invented by white men. Lack of diversity didn't become a handicap for them

I believe there are probably good arguments for diversity being overvalued. That is not one of them. That would flunk you out of Logic 101.

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Re:Is Silicon Valley Discriminating Against Men and Asians? by ken47 on Saturday October 15, 2016 @11:53AM (#12714393)

I'm not sure why this is down voted. Just because X historically achieved A doesn't imply that achievement(X+Y) <= A, so you can't deduce the absence of a handicap from that.

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Re:Is Silicon Valley Discriminating Against Men and Asians? by robotresearcher on Saturday October 15, 2016 @05:03AM (#12713307)

> Lack of diversity didn't become a handicap for them.

How about the opportunity cost of not using the women and non-white people?

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Re:Is Silicon Valley Discriminating Against Men and Asians? by rwmj on Saturday October 15, 2016 @03:30PM (#12715328)

"Groups of diverse problem solvers can outperform groups of high-ability problem solvers" http://www.pnas.org/content/101/46/16385.full

By the way, the paper is a lot of words and math to explain that homogeneous groups can fall into local minima, whereas diverse groups can find better minima. I don't necessarily claim it disproves what you say, but it is at least a paper on the subject.

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