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Re:“There is, unfortunately, no such thing as a truly neutra... by foldr on Friday May 04, 2018 @09:29AM (#16994438)
And if it wasn't true, this wouldn't happen:

https://www.theguardian.com/women-in-leadership/2013/oct/14/...

You can't conclude too much from an isolated example.

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Re:“There is, unfortunately, no such thing as a truly neutra... by voidr on Friday May 04, 2018 @10:17AM (#16994756)
> You can't conclude too much from an isolated example.

You can conclude that the effects of implicit bias are not well understood and maybe we should study it a little bit more before we treat it as absolute truth and factor it into decision making.

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Re:“There is, unfortunately, no such thing as a truly neutra... by foldr on Friday May 04, 2018 @11:45AM (#16995453)
I don't see how I could conclude anything about how well understood implicit bias is from one or two examples of it materializing or failing to materialize.
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Re:“There is, unfortunately, no such thing as a truly neutra... by voidr on Monday May 07, 2018 @02:55AM (#17010827)
People thought they understood it, they started applying policies around it and then their assumptions turned out to be false, hence me saying it's not well understood.
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