Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo
by stagbeetle on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @09:39AM
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As the OP, I ask this in good faith, can you link me the data?
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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo
by KirinDave on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @11:40AM
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https://www.google.com/diversity/
But you can google search for articles from previous years (google controls the comparisons so you can't free query the data).
Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo
by stagbeetle on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @11:52AM
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Thank you.
It looks like there's been a steady up trend for gender diversity (starting from 2014), even if women to men in tech positions are 2:8.
Although, the racial diversity is abysmal.
Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo
by KirinDave on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @03:27PM
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It's a startling deviation from the general population statistics. That fact is why I grant a lot of plausibility to unconscious bias arguments. When you render the numbers, they are very striking.
And once you normalize that kind of environment as "balanced", an attempts to correct it are going to appear to be a new bias. With few exceptions, this is something like a Mystery Spot illusion where you're normalized to such a skewed perception that even balanced and fair ideas can appear to be unfair.