Re:How Women Came to Dominate Neuroendocrinology
by panda88888 on Friday August 17, 2018 @12:21AM
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Have all 15 male engineers is not THAT improbable. Assumed 80% male applicant, each hiring is independent event of others, and equal chance of hiring for both gender, it comes out to 3.5%. Or 1 out of every 30 companies with 15 engineers to have all male teams.
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Re:How Women Came to Dominate Neuroendocrinology
by jwilliams on Friday August 17, 2018 @01:04AM
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Well that's a different way of saying a similar thing.
In that case you're assuming that 80% of engineers should be male - which is a different argument than what was put forward.
Re:How Women Came to Dominate Neuroendocrinology
by panda88888 on Friday August 17, 2018 @01:05PM
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The 80% assumption is based on historical gender ratio of CS degree earned. Quick Googling shows historical percent at roughly 18% CS degree earned by women in 2014.
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/cracking-the-code:-why-aren...
https://www.computerscience.org/resources/women-in-computer-...
https://www.usnews.com/news/data-mine/articles/2016-10-20/st...