Re:University of Washington Computer Science Lecturer Explai...
by brenschluss on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @01:41PM
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Usually most of these questions are asked with horrible methodology and pseudoscience wrapped around bigotry.
I would like to see someone answer the ‘question’ of “why women dont code” and “why mass shooters are mostly white men” with the same methodology.
One could say:
Devil’s Advocate: “After all, 58% of mass shootings in the past 35 years were committed by white men. The data is clear. Is this not due to probably the inherently violent and psychopathic nature of white men?”
If you have problems with this statement, then why, and why aren’t your methodological concerns similarly mappable on simplistic “why women don’t code” arguments?
I would like to see someone answer the ‘question’ of “why women dont code” and “why mass shooters are mostly white men” with the same methodology.
One could say:
Devil’s Advocate: “After all, 58% of mass shootings in the past 35 years were committed by white men. The data is clear. Is this not due to probably the inherently violent and psychopathic nature of white men?”
If you have problems with this statement, then why, and why aren’t your methodological concerns similarly mappable on simplistic “why women don’t code” arguments?