Did blind orchestra auditions benefit women?

Re:Did blind orchestra auditions benefit women? by CJefferson on Sunday May 12, 2019 @06:40AM (#19891153)

A man only team is likely to miss some perspectives, which it is much more likely women will have, in the same way a female only team will miss a male perspective.

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Re:Did blind orchestra auditions benefit women? by bufferoverflow on Sunday May 12, 2019 @07:09AM (#19891239)

Any team is likely to miss some perspectives.

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Re:Did blind orchestra auditions benefit women? by CJefferson on Sunday May 12, 2019 @09:33AM (#19891779)

True, and trying to optimise for everything won't work, but we can try.

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Re:Did blind orchestra auditions benefit women? by bubblewrap on Sunday May 12, 2019 @03:22PM (#19893880)

Can you give some examples? I find it very hard to believe, for general software products.

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Re:Did blind orchestra auditions benefit women? by scooble on Sunday May 12, 2019 @08:53AM (#19891582)

So what kinds of things are female programmers going to miss? What kind of roles can we decide a priori should go to a man?

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Re:Did blind orchestra auditions benefit women? by bubblewrap on Sunday May 12, 2019 @07:15AM (#19891251)

Many software products don't need female specific features. There is the famous story of the Apple fitness tracker that couldn't account for menstruation cycles, but that is a rather specific example.

And that approach is doomed to fail in general, because there are too many different people. If you can only think of appropriate features by having a representative needing such a feature on your team, you'd have to hire thousands of people to work on your product.

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