Re:Outraged about the Google diversity memo?
by bendmorris on Thursday August 10, 2017 @01:07AM
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You're missing my point. If women would naturally have more representation and were disadvantaged by this policy, and the policy was 100% effective (unheard of), their representation would drop from >50% to 50% - it wouldn't somehow switch to women being significantly underrepresented. This assertion doesn't make sense based on the actual situation we have today.
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Re:Outraged about the Google diversity memo?
by jorgemf on Thursday August 10, 2017 @01:14AM
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I don't know if I understand you. We have the situation we have today because "biases and unequal opportunities".
Re:Outraged about the Google diversity memo?
by michaelchisari on Thursday August 10, 2017 @02:12AM
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I think the person you're responding to is assuming that we are already at a decently fair equilibrium, and that diversity and other concepts and goals are disrupting that equilibrium. I think the biggest failure of communication around these issues is that a lot of people arguing against these programs are coming at it from the just world hypothesis.