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Ubisoft CCO Serge Hascoet resigns in wake of sweeping allegations

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Re: Ubisoft CCO Serge Hascoet resigns in wake of sweeping allegations

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I'm more worried about the 95%+ of sexual assaults that perpetrators get away with.

Citation needed for that “95%+” claim. And While you are at it, can you spell out what exactly you mean by “sexual assault“? It seems to me that the meaning has been corrupted in order to further political and ideological aims of the accusers and executioners.

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Re: Ubisoft CCO Serge Hascoet resigns in wake of sweeping allegations

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post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm more worried about the 95%+ of sexual assaults that perpetrators get away with.

Citation needed for that “95%+” claim. And While you are at it, can you spell out what exactly you mean by “sexual assault“? It seems to me that the meaning has been corrupted in order to further political and ideological aims of the accusers and executioners.

Yes no problems it's all out there.

19% of women report sexual violence to police. (1)

10% of those reports result in a conviction. (2)

So actually I was being conservative, it's actually

98%+ get away with it based on these two sources.

And we haven't even got to child sexual assault conviction rates.

(1) http://www.ausstats.abs.gov.au/ausstats/subscriber.nsf/0/056...

(2) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-14/why-do-so-few-sexual-...

Re: Ubisoft CCO Serge Hascoet resigns in wake of sweeping allegations

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post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Citation needed for that “95%+” claim. And While you are at it, can you spell out what exactly you mean by “sexual assault“? It seems to me that the meaning has been corrupted in order to further political and ideological aims of the accusers and executioners.

Yes no problems it's all out there. 19% of women report sexual violence to police. (1) 10% of those reports result in a conviction. (2) So actually I was being conservative, it's actually 98%+ get away with it based on these two sources. And we haven't even got to child sexual assault conviction rates. (1) http://www.ausstats.abs.gov.au/ausstats/subscriber.nsf/0/056... (2) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-14/why-d…

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Re: Ubisoft CCO Serge Hascoet resigns in wake of sweeping allegations

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post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Citation needed for that “95%+” claim. And While you are at it, can you spell out what exactly you mean by “sexual assault“? It seems to me that the meaning has been corrupted in order to further political and ideological aims of the accusers and executioners.

Yes no problems it's all out there. 19% of women report sexual violence to police. (1) 10% of those reports result in a conviction. (2) So actually I was being conservative, it's actually 98%+ get away with it based on these two sources. And we haven't even got to child sexual assault conviction rates. (1) http://www.ausstats.abs.gov.au/ausstats/subscriber.nsf/0/056... (2) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-14/why-d…

Very interesting that men experienced sexual assault almost twice as much as women. Yet I've never seen a media witch hunt for female aggressors (maybe it's happened, I've just never seen it.)

Re: Ubisoft CCO Serge Hascoet resigns in wake of sweeping allegations

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post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Citation needed for that “95%+” claim. And While you are at it, can you spell out what exactly you mean by “sexual assault“? It seems to me that the meaning has been corrupted in order to further political and ideological aims of the accusers and executioners.

Yes no problems it's all out there. 19% of women report sexual violence to police. (1) 10% of those reports result in a conviction. (2) So actually I was being conservative, it's actually 98%+ get away with it based on these two sources. And we haven't even got to child sexual assault conviction rates. (1) http://www.ausstats.abs.gov.au/ausstats/subscriber.nsf/0/056... (2) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-14/why-d…

> 98%+ get away with it based on these two sources.

Your first stats are 15 year old and are only applicable to Canada. You can't make broad generalizations like that. Different countries have different culture and very different legal systems.

Re: Ubisoft CCO Serge Hascoet resigns in wake of sweeping allegations

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post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes no problems it's all out there. 19% of women report sexual violence to police. (1) 10% of those reports result in a conviction. (2) So actually I was being conservative, it's actually 98%+ get away with it based on these two sources. And we haven't even got to child sexual assault conviction rates. (1) http://www.ausstats.abs.gov.au/ausstats/subscriber.nsf/0/056... (2) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-14/why-d…

> 98%+ get away with it based on these two sources. Your first stats are 15 year old and are only applicable to Canada. You can't make broad generalizations like that. Different countries have different culture and very different legal systems.

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Re: Ubisoft CCO Serge Hascoet resigns in wake of sweeping allegations

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I am deeply troubled that we have normalised public executions on the basis of allegations. No person or group should have that power to effectively end someone’s career on accusations alone.

The article reports about multiple journalistic investigations by detailing the systemic corruption and coverups of sexual crimes bye the company managerial staff and HR, stemmed by the accusation of ex-employees on personal blogs, twitter, journalistic outlets - showing episodes of sexual harassment, sexual violence, penetrative rape - episodes often corroborated by several other current and ex-employees.

And the term you decide to describe all of this is "allegation" and "public executions". Interesting choice of words.

I mean, if you had enough informations to prove that what Libèration and Bloomberg wrote is unsubstantiated, that would be quite a revelation. In France, that would also carry heavy legal implications. So, I think a lot of people would like to hear more about that. Especially those fired right now from Ubi.

Otherwise, in the off chance that you can't exactly prove that such journalistic investigations are false...just tell me, honestly, what are you arguing about?

Re: Ubisoft CCO Serge Hascoet resigns in wake of sweeping allegations

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Weird to see this here. I have limited knowledge on these things; FD: I work for Ubisoft in their Massive Studio. Ubisoft itself is incredibly silo'd; each studio and each function operates like a loosely coupled bundling of companies. You can think of it like: * Marketing has offices (or colo's in some offices) but has a completely seperate reporting structure all the way to Yves. * (same for other business function…

> What I'm trying to say is that: each "head" is responsible for the culture they create So often people forget that leaders set the cultural. > Notably the Editoriale team (gatekeepers for games) was recently expanded to be more diverse.. that diversity was all middle-aged white french guys who came from the same school and had worked in that department before.. so.. not very diverse. This saddens me. I do wonder if…

Diversity is variation among traits. It's easy to calculate for a given group, and also easy to devise a statistical test to ensure the group represents your desired distribution.

The only questions (to your point) are what traits you want to measure, and what distribution you desire.

For a product or service team, the traits you measure should be those that maximize product fit - that is, the chances that your target buyers will buy and enjoy your product.

And the distribution you desire should be a reflection of your target buyers.

Re: Ubisoft CCO Serge Hascoet resigns in wake of sweeping allegations

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I am deeply troubled that we have normalised public executions on the basis of allegations. No person or group should have that power to effectively end someone’s career on accusations alone.

I guess it’s fortunate that isn’t the case here.
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