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Re:A note to our employees by mebreuer on Thursday November 08, 2018 @03:25PM (#18409646)
With a high enough sample size, shouldn't equity of outcome reflect equity of opportunity?
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Re:A note to our employees by naasking on Thursday November 08, 2018 @04:38PM (#18410285)
Not at all. For instance, if there are innate gender dispositions to certain subjects, then those fields will have a much larger proportion of that gender. There's evidence this may be the case in STEM for instance, which would explain the so-called gender equality paradox.
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Re:A note to our employees by prepend on Thursday November 08, 2018 @07:16PM (#18411308)
Perhaps, but it wouldn’t be useful for companies since even google’s 20k population wouldn’t be big enough to clear out all of the confounding variables.
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