Re:Ten years on from Norway's quota for women on corporate b...
by Chris2048 on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @11:13AM
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If unions are anything to go by, in those 10/20/30 years powerful institutions will arise ensuring bias will always be detected, either by technical/political interference with the means of measurement, or altering the scope of what constitutes "bias".
Re:Ten years on from Norway's quota for women on corporate b...
by ghthor on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @07:43AM
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Exactly. While there absolutely is discrimination due to systemic and personal bias, reaching for equality of outcome is much to heavy handed. The result is many innocent people being hurt at best, at worst istitutional tyranny.
For one, I doubt we'll ever detect that bias has been eliminated. Secondly, even if we did, we'll never dismantle the institutional policies of discrimination, because at that point, far too many people would be benefiting from them. We seem to be deliberately implementing institutional discrimination on the assumption that differences of outcome necessarily represent oppression.