Lyft commits to closing wage gaps across race and gender
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Lyft commits to closing wage gaps across race and gender
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#2Why is it that Asian people are earning 2x more than white people yet article is focusing on "white men"?
Nice journalism. Not biased at all.
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#3Why is it that Asian people are earning 2x more than white people yet article is focusing on "white men"? Nice journalism. Not biased at all. https://i.imgur.com/rjmHYk0.png
> Why is it that Asian people are earning 2x more than white people yet article is focusing on "white men"?
Because pay discrimination is actually skill discrimination, but we're all ideologues and have to ignore information to keep our fragile narratives intact.
Edit:
It's my understanding the wage gap has been thoroughly debunked. It's core premise relies on a univariate analysis of lifetime earnings that has no real analytical value. Although, in some instances, pay discrimination may still exist. It's isolated, and completely illegal.
Re: Lyft commits to closing wage gaps across race and gender
#4Agree, this is not controlling for the types of jobs that people are doing! Also if Lyft only spent $100K on it, they clearly didn’t find much of an issue. This is just a feel good story for marketing purposes. #trash
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#5Why is it that Asian people are earning 2x more than white people yet article is focusing on "white men"? Nice journalism. Not biased at all. https://i.imgur.com/rjmHYk0.png
There has been a strong hate towards white men in particular in recent years. Everything seems to be their fault if you read huffpo.
Re: Lyft commits to closing wage gaps across race and gender
#6Agree, this is not controlling for the types of jobs that people are doing! Also if Lyft only spent $100K on it, they clearly didn’t find much of an issue. This is just a feel good story for marketing purposes. #trash
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#7I'm curious how they determined that the 1% of cases were gender and race-based and not something else. With such a small number, it seems like it would be very easy for the variations to be caused by other factors. It is probably good PR for them, but the math behind the decision would be pretty interesting.
Re: Lyft commits to closing wage gaps across race and gender
#8Why is it that Asian people are earning 2x more than white people yet article is focusing on "white men"? Nice journalism. Not biased at all. https://i.imgur.com/rjmHYk0.png
This is wrong. The article states Asian males earn 117% as much, which is just 17% more. This is one of the things that turns me off Hacker News, an overly strong bias in defense of white men.
Re: Lyft commits to closing wage gaps across race and gender
#9Why is it that Asian people are earning 2x more than white people yet article is focusing on "white men"? Nice journalism. Not biased at all. https://i.imgur.com/rjmHYk0.png
There has been a strong hate towards white men in particular in recent years. Everything seems to be their fault if you read huffpo.
It's not actually a recent phenomenon...
Re: Lyft commits to closing wage gaps across race and gender
#10Why is it that Asian people are earning 2x more than white people yet article is focusing on "white men"? Nice journalism. Not biased at all. https://i.imgur.com/rjmHYk0.png
This is wrong. The article states Asian males earn 117% as much, which is just 17% more. This is one of the things that turns me off Hacker News, an overly strong bias in defense of white men.
Overly strong? Maybe they miswrote? Maybe they did their calculations wrong? You are assuming quiet a lot here.