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Re:The power of role models by FullMtlAlcoholc on Saturday February 25, 2017 @03:15PM (#13733595)
I think his post was that we should challenge our cognitive biases and the male-oriented geek culture.

For example, after some members of the team have interviewed a potential candidate for hire, we get together to discuss our observations on him/her. We were choosing between two people and the female, IMO, wrote much cleaner code. The team decided to go with the guy because "he fit the culture better".

What this meant was he and 2 of the other interviewers talked about League of Legends for 10 minutes and he wore a "hilarious" graphic t-shirt.

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Re:The power of role models by watwut on Saturday February 25, 2017 @04:13PM (#13733847)
Even if the two applicants were guys, that decision process is still wrong and has nothing to do with "meritocracy".
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Re:The power of role models by FullMtlAlcoholc on Sunday February 26, 2017 @01:04PM (#13738600)
> has nothing to do with "meritocracy".

My point exactly. This is very common in hiring practices where "culture" fit is most important.

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