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Re:If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the sam... by lutorm on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @10:23PM (#15546896)
If my experiment fails to show anything conclusive, I should be open to re-evaluating some of the things I rejected, but I refuse to do it out of zealous belief in my hypothesis.

You are arguing a straw man. The "experiments" in this case are showing ample evidence of biases, so as long as those biases exist the underlying hypothesis can by definition not be falsified.

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Re:If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the sam... by fareesh on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @10:31PM (#15546950)
Perhaps I am not very well read on the subject. My argument was rooted in the attitude I came across when this story was trending (linked at the end of this comment). This research might have been disproved later on, I never followed up on the story. What I was referring to was the readiness with which some were willing to stop pursuing this sort of trial.

My intent wasn't to strawman - if this is in fact non-existent then I concede that point.

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-30/bilnd-recruitment-t...

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Re:If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the sam... by peoplewindow on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @05:20AM (#15548625)
Which experiments? I'm not aware of much in the gender diversity 'sciences' that would rise to the level of being called an experiment, except for the sort of neuro-psychology that Damore cited and which he got slated for (because they show biological reasons for differences in subject interest)
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