Re:Poll: Male or female or other
by Dewie on Tuesday April 09, 2013 @05:19PM
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> It's amazing how much intellectual talent we're missing out on because it seems tech scares away women.
The same can be said about how stereotypes, personality types and culture scares away certain races, certain subcultures, certain age groups etc.
It's not as simple as "scares away half the population"; it might be so much as "scares away 95% of the population", of which there is an unknown percentage that would not be scared if some small part of any part of how tech looks to the outside changed.
And then there's a question of how many of those are really scared off.
The same can be said about how stereotypes, personality types and culture scares away certain races, certain subcultures, certain age groups etc.
It's not as simple as "scares away half the population"; it might be so much as "scares away 95% of the population", of which there is an unknown percentage that would not be scared if some small part of any part of how tech looks to the outside changed.
And then there's a question of how many of those are really scared off.