I feel like this study would be more insightful if it looked at how many of these pitches went onto actually receive funding
Gender, race, and entrepreneurship: A randomized field experiment on investors
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#122As a 'white' father of 3 who has been unemployed for the past few years I can tell you that this paper is sole crushing. Its a monument to how backwards common perception is to reality. Its a declaration from academia to never stop finding ways at punishing (me, my wife and 3 daughters) for my sin of being born white/male/pre1990. From what I have seen, people like me are under-represented in most office environments…
it's a bit much to extrapolate from a single study in one area. even just reading the conclusion the authors share a few possible limitations of the study even within the field of startup investment
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
> if we were despotic and put people into tracks like the USSR who turned out lots of talented women in STEM It sound like BS. Have you learned it in school?
Their does seem to be an inverse correlation between what we consider free and rich societies and despotic poor societies and their equality in STEM fields. You need not look far, even very conservative countries such as Belarus have stronger representation in IT than a much more liberal society such as Sweden.
There is no doubt many Soviet women chose to become engineers.
I doubt that the choice was involuntary.
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#124I feel like this study would be more insightful if it looked at how many of these pitches went onto actually receive funding
That would be nice, but you can't have an experiment that does that. You can conduct empirical research to try to answer that question, but that has its own problems and limitation. Overall, like most research, this paper is a piece of data that provides a bit more understanding than we had before.
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
So you think the data is only relevant to the hypothesis you decided it's relevant for before you collect it? "Have you seen the fire sir?" "I have only seen smoke" "But have you seen the fire?" "It's irrelevant because I was only looking for smoke!". I mean I know they teach it in naive introductory experiment design in some soft science departments but c'mon it's neither smart nor correct. If you need a separate ex…
The reason you don’t collect some data and then see what curves you can fit to it is exactly the problem you describe. “Eureka, a ninth-order polynomial function fits the data quite closely!” You can’t look at your A/B test results every morning and stop the test the moment one measurement “shows significance”. That’s not how it works.
That's why the GP was taking about weak priors.
You just don't run an A/B test for 6 months hoping that a new design increases sales, get results pointing that the new design reduces sales by 90%, and then go make another 6 months long test to make sure the sales indeed fell.
Acknowledging the numbers on that single dimension are different from what you expected isn't the same as testing a bunch of different dimensions. And if your hypothesis does not allow for it, you completely failed at rational thinking.
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#126As a 'white' father of 3 who has been unemployed for the past few years I can tell you that this paper is sole crushing. Its a monument to how backwards common perception is to reality. Its a declaration from academia to never stop finding ways at punishing (me, my wife and 3 daughters) for my sin of being born white/male/pre1990. From what I have seen, people like me are under-represented in most office environments…
By creating racial tension, the upper class in control of media can distract people's anger away from class division.
correct. it's the perfect way to divide the lower class and no coincidence that identity politics was embraced by the upper class after Occupy Wall St
Re: Gender, race, and entrepreneurship: A randomized field experiment on investors
#127As a 'white' father of 3 who has been unemployed for the past few years I can tell you that this paper is sole crushing. Its a monument to how backwards common perception is to reality. Its a declaration from academia to never stop finding ways at punishing (me, my wife and 3 daughters) for my sin of being born white/male/pre1990. From what I have seen, people like me are under-represented in most office environments…
> From what I have seen, people like me are under-represented in most office environments.
This is not supported either by anecdote or by data. It's true for some environments, but absolutely not most.
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#128As a 'white' father of 3 who has been unemployed for the past few years I can tell you that this paper is sole crushing. Its a monument to how backwards common perception is to reality. Its a declaration from academia to never stop finding ways at punishing (me, my wife and 3 daughters) for my sin of being born white/male/pre1990. From what I have seen, people like me are under-represented in most office environments…
You’re not alone. Many of us feel the same way. This system will always hate us, we have to start supporting each other. Give it time. We’re going to make it friend.
> we have to start supporting each other
Do you currently feel that white men are not supportive of one another? Or were you referring to a subcategory of white men?
> Give it time
What do you expect time to change?
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#129As long as there aren't as much women studying all kinds of engineering, you're going to see disparaties in the workforce. Lets stop trying to force equal distribution but rather equal opportunity. Funny thing to see is that as a country becomes MORE developed, women tend to be LESS inclined to attend STEM studies.
This article is not about engineering or even the workforce. It's about venture funding.
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#130Same thing with job applications: "In an attempt to increase workplace diversity, the Australian public service implemented a .. trial removing all mention of gender and ethnicity from applications. It was found that removing gender from thousands of applications made women less likely to advance through the recruitment process compared to cases where gender was visible. The trial found that a woman's name on an appl…
Why does India get penalized if they generate 50% of the people interested in a tech H1B (they don't - it's a thought experiment). Why is 49% preferable to 30% or 51% or 70%? Why not split male and female applicants into two pools and hire accordingly? Meaning if you get 70% of your applicants from men, hire 70% male and 30% female. If the following year it's 60/40, hire 60/40.
Or better yet, fix the pipeline issues rather than put in arbitrary caps and quotas that serve only to reduce the overall quality of candidate pools.