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Re:Female, minority students took AP computer science in rec... by emodendroket on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @03:13PM (#17921017)
My expectation is the opposite of yours, and in point of fact people of a different race often are not from the same backgrounds since socioeconomic status is highly racialized in this country.
Re:Female, minority students took AP computer science in rec... by beaconstudios on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @03:38PM (#17921205)
Of course there's going to be a large difference between people of different races' outlook and perspective, especially in the US. My point is that I think people from different political perspectives have much more fundamentally different ideas, beliefs and philosophies. For an explicit example, a progressive might spot gendered language in a UI that could be exclusionary, where a libertarian might spot a community problem that can solved by market or distributed forces/algorithms. Those are kind of on-the-nose examples but they serve to show things that people from different political lines might not even look for.
Re:Female, minority students took AP computer science in rec... by emodendroket on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @07:13PM (#17922636)
You know who else might spot gendered, exclusionary language better than colleagues? A woman.
Re:Female, minority students took AP computer science in rec... by beaconstudios on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @07:44PM (#17922816)
My point was more general around how people with different political viewpoints see the world differently but if you want to focus on that particular example then go ahead I guess.
Re:Female, minority students took AP computer science in rec... by emodendroket on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @08:59PM (#17923172)
If you don't like how easily I can shoot holes in your two examples pick better ones