If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the same five schools

Re:If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the sam... by Consultant32452 on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @09:36PM (#15546702)

If you want to bring more women into your firm because you think they have some biological or sociological advantages over men in some areas then that's fine, do so. But look at the majority of posts in this thread, they're all about reducing gender bias. These other posts don't make sense in the context of an employer whose payroll is already proportional to the pipeline.

You're saying the opposite, that increasing gender bias will provide you with some economic benefit. At least what you're saying is rational and consistent.

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Re:If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the sam... by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @01:20AM (#15547692)

"Bias" measures deviance from a parameter. Without agreement on the population being measured and the parameter in question, the term--and quibbling over it--is meaningless. You are defining the population as something close to "people who possess the relevant skills," i.e. the pipeline. Others are using "people who possess the relevant skills but aren't in the pipeline" or "people who could possess the relevant skills if factors out of their control were accounted for". Others, still, disagree with how you're measuring "possess the relevant skills". This is all reasonable disagreement.

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