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Re:Tech suffers from lack of humanities, says Mozilla head by tclancy on Sunday October 14, 2018 @03:41PM (#18214810)
Clearly she didn’t discuss the danger of extrapolating a trend line from a single datapoint.
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Re:Tech suffers from lack of humanities, says Mozilla head by xvedejas on Sunday October 14, 2018 @03:47PM (#18214860)
I make no claim as to whether competent science ethicists exist. Clearly this anecdote is a good example of what professors of humanities should try to avoid if they aim to fix problems in STEM.
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Re:Tech suffers from lack of humanities, says Mozilla head by dr_teh on Monday October 15, 2018 @05:49AM (#18218502)
Right, she must have invented and pioneered virtue signalling
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Re:Tech suffers from lack of humanities, says Mozilla head by sprash on Sunday October 14, 2018 @04:19PM (#18215080)
Most humanities do not understand or even argue against the concepts of statistics. It might well be that she even lacked the capabilities to make an argument like you just made.
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