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There are 'blind audition' studies that clearly show gender bias: "A recent study by two economists finds that chances of women making it past preliminary auditioning rounds increase by 50 percent if they audition ``behind a heavy cloth suspended from the ceiling so judges can't see their gender.'' http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1997-04-28/business/9704250...
Re:Introducing Heka on Monday May 13, 2013 @04:32PM (#5701208)
We're working on algorithms to improve the 'predict' part (way beyond Holt-Winters!): ow.ly/jRKrT

If you're interested to see our algorithms in action, email me jennyinc at gmail.com