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Re:An 80s Girl Talks About Computers: A Reminiscence by jandrese on Thursday August 17, 2017 @02:49PM (#15039665)
Sure, but when you are atypical because you are an 80s girl who is into computers it becomes hard to use your experiences to determine why there is a large gender disparity in computer relented fields.

It's hard to draw conclusions about a population by only inspecting the outliers, you get lots of noise in the data.

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Re:An 80s Girl Talks About Computers: A Reminiscence by mfoy_ on Thursday August 17, 2017 @04:04PM (#15040343)
I don't know... if you're an 80s girl who got into computers despite lots of girls not getting into computers perhaps your experiences, and the hurdles you faced, are actually more interesting and relevant than the more "typical" answers.
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