Re:Is billionaire VC Peter Thiel trying to break up Google?
by factsaresacred on Thursday November 16, 2017 @03:58AM
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> We cannot really conclude anything.
Great! So when will we stop parading this nonsensical "diversity is our strength" mantra, or at least stop stigmatizing those that point out - as you have - that we cannot really conclude anything?
It has as much merit - and perhaps less, given the studies - as saying "diversity is not our strength".
You see the issue now?
Re:Is billionaire VC Peter Thiel trying to break up Google?
by sillysaurus3 on Thursday November 16, 2017 @04:03AM
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When taking a controversial side, it's important to be calm and make cogent arguments.
It's hard. Especially when it feels like people are going out of their way to misinterpret or frame you. But it's worth it.
Re:Is billionaire VC Peter Thiel trying to break up Google?
by coldtea on Thursday November 16, 2017 @05:47AM
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>Intuitive has nothing to do with fact,
Studies in soft sciences have even less to do with fact too -- it's mostly the fads of the day presented as fact.
Intuitive has nothing to do with fact, plenty of factors might heavily influence what one considers "intuitive". For a lot of people the necessity of the death penalty is "intuitive", yet for many societies, it's an absolute no-brainer that such practices are medieval.
So again, unless there is a corpus of studies, all pointing in the same direction, with all the environmental factors completely eliminated using double-blind or other proper scientific methods, we cannot really conclude anything.