Re:Outraged about the Google diversity memo?
by michaelchisari on Thursday August 10, 2017 @11:39AM
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> Why would anyone spend time and effort to fake it?
It's a heated argument on the internet. There'd be plenty of incentive to fake a graph in order to bolster one's opinion.
Re:Outraged about the Google diversity memo?
by yorwba on Thursday August 10, 2017 @12:03PM
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My point is that if you are going to fake a graph to bolster your opinion, you might as well fake one that actually bolsters your opinion, instead of just mildly suggesting that not everyone disagrees with you.
Re:Outraged about the Google diversity memo?
by michaelchisari on Thursday August 10, 2017 @02:49PM
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I'm really disappointed we're even having this conversation on Hacker News. A graph with no source, no methodology, no context is useless. We're computer programmers, we should know enough about data to recognize this and dismiss it until we have those things.
So I think unless there's someone who can point to the actual internal graph, there's just no reason to believe this is fake.
The distribution this poll shows is not so outlandish as to be unbelievable, and importantly it does not lend itself to overwhelmingly support one side over the other. Why would anyone spend time and effort to fake it?