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Re:Stop Equating “Science” with Truth by averagewall on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @10:23PM (#14975787)
Eliminate structural biases in education, health care, housing, and salaries that favor white men and see if we fail. Run the experiment. Be a scientist about it.

That experiment's been done and "we failed". India has greater structural biases against women than the US but a higher percentage of women in tech. And it's a pretty consistent correlation between bias and women's involvement across countries.

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Re:Stop Equating “Science” with Truth by xaa on Thursday August 10, 2017 @12:41AM (#14976432)
Take a look at this:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagger...

Apparently, and paradoxically, greater eqalitarianism in a society can result in higher amounts of individual choice, which can actually exacerbate inherent differences between groups (if you believe they exist).

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Re:Stop Equating “Science” with Truth by TheLilHipster on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @10:40PM (#14975865)
Citations would be more convincing.
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