Re:Confessions of a Failed Female Coder
by nullc on Saturday October 07, 2017 @02:18PM
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> there is a tinge of implicit buy-in of gender stereotyping in her writing
She emphasized that you can't predict an individual from population characteristics many times.
But if you're concerned about overall diversity and not just if a particular individual has access, then you must concern yourself, at least somewhat, with population characteristics.
Sterotyping is a sin if you use it for discrimination, it's humanitarian when you use it -- for example-- to save people from breast and prostate cancer.
> it basically boiled down to "we learn differently", and i just find that woefully inadequate
It may not take much of a difference in averages in the gendered sub-populations to make a big difference in tech's gender balance if you make the assumption that tech is selecting for people several standard deviations away from the norm.
She emphasized that you can't predict an individual from population characteristics many times.
But if you're concerned about overall diversity and not just if a particular individual has access, then you must concern yourself, at least somewhat, with population characteristics.
Sterotyping is a sin if you use it for discrimination, it's humanitarian when you use it -- for example-- to save people from breast and prostate cancer.
> it basically boiled down to "we learn differently", and i just find that woefully inadequate
It may not take much of a difference in averages in the gendered sub-populations to make a big difference in tech's gender balance if you make the assumption that tech is selecting for people several standard deviations away from the norm.