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ghort

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    Comment #14961811

    I don't think it's a trivial difference. Lowering the bar suggest that people are now being accepted on lesser merits. But a false negative is a binary condition. Both positive and…

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    Comment #14961382

    Guess people didn't get it. It's not believable to claim to want to correct biases when you want to remove measures that correct biases. Even more ironic is using much of the paper…

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    Comment #14960954

    > The initiatives that the author links to in this section are presumably aimed at reducing the false negative rate for women, and thereby lowering the bar that women need to clear…

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    Comment #14959830

    > he believes that biases should be corrected So he believes in decreasing the false negative rate? I'm confused.

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    Comment #14957157

    I don't think people necessarily understand which career they choose. When girl wants to become ballerinas it is presumably because they have some idea that it is glamorous, not th…

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    Comment #14956499

    Not sure what you are saying. It is the first amendment that grants the right to fire people you don't agree with. So presumably not everyone agrees on what free speech is. https:/…