Re:Harvey Mudd College Attempting to Address Tech Diversity ...
by sjc_native1980s on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @03:31PM
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There's a happy gray area between less c/overt bias/discrimination and promoting people whom aren't qualified/interested to ameliorate guilt of the former.
Re:Harvey Mudd College Attempting to Address Tech Diversity ...
by awfgylbcxhrey on Thursday January 05, 2017 @12:10PM
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I'm not particularly interested in gender and race, I'm interested in culture. Gender and race happen to be pretty easy metrics to break up monoculture on a typical programming team.
The term diversity by itself has no meaning.
Yes it does.
There are very valid arguments for diversity in working styles/technology expertise. The same can't be said for diversity in race/gender.
Okay, thanks for the tautology.
>diversity is a method of keeping this sort of thing in check.
The term diversity by itself has no meaning. One needs to specify how groups of people are split up whenever using the word "diversity". Are we splitting the groups up by race, gender, economic class, technology experiences, etc.?
There are very valid arguments for diversity in working styles/technology expertise. The same can't be said for diversity in race/gender.