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Re:Billions flood the Nordics but female founders just recei... by Avalaxy on Friday October 23, 2020 @05:59AM (#24867716)
No, you can still not conclude that. There are still many many differences to take into account. What sort of businesses do these women start? Do they need less money for that? Are those industries less attractive to VCs (for example because they are not growth-markets)? Do women maybe prefer to raise less money so they get to keep more equity?
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Re:Billions flood the Nordics but female founders just recei... by pletnes on Friday October 23, 2020 @06:05AM (#24867762)
Then cry «investigate», at least. 5x is a fairly large X.
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Re:Billions flood the Nordics but female founders just recei... by roenxi on Friday October 23, 2020 @06:16AM (#24867845)
Doesn't mean anything though. I searched for picture of a "Basketball Team", and in the team in the first photo there are 7x as many black people as white. An infinite ratio of men to women too.

That isn't evidence of any sort of discrimination or prejudice. It is due to the rather difficult to dispute fact that for reasons uncertain black men seem to play better basketball. I don't even know anything about basketball I just picked a stereotype.

I'm all for investigations; but report back when there is evidence of a problem not evidence of a difference. Differences are routine.

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