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Re:Mozilla not accepted for Google Summer of Code 2015 by eropple on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @10:58AM (#9138307)
> Serious question: Do you think this is a conscious choice made by those in the tech field?

I don't think it's conscious, but I do think it's something that can be consciously averted and I don't think it's okay in 2015 to be ignorant of how aggressively people want to hire people like them. It's not just male/female, it's white/nonwhite, American/non-American. If you have a shop of white American dudes, then virtually everybody, under what I would call "pretty average" management, will be within one step of that.

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Re:Mozilla not accepted for Google Summer of Code 2015 by wpietri on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @11:45AM (#9138657)
I don't get why this is being downvoted. There's substantial research to indicate the strong hiring biases at play in standard American hiring practices. Study after study after study. I get why we would all like to think ourselves virtuous. But the problem here isn't a lack of virtue, it's the zillion cognitive biases that creep in unless we take active countermeasures.
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