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Your reasoning contains no fact specific to women. Thus, it should be valid for me to substitute any other group which is underrepresented in computing: Given that few retards enter CS, and many who do leave, it would not be surprising to find that the remaining retards who have not been selected out somehow are in fact more skilled than the average non-retard engineer. It also still doesn't make a >60% women class r…
If you want to add a "PC" note, it should include an acknowledgement that the term "Retard" is highly offensive to many even tangentially associated with the mentally challenged community.
Meritocracy and Discrimination in Tech
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I think he was referring to people that drive under the speed limit.
Re: Meritocracy and Discrimination in Tech
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Assuming men and women are equally skilled is a big assumption. Given that few women enter CS, and many who do leave, it would not be surprising to find that the remaining women who have not been selected out somehow are in fact more skilled than the average male engineer.
Your reasoning contains no fact specific to women. Thus, it should be valid for me to substitute any other group which is underrepresented in computing: Given that few retards enter CS, and many who do leave, it would not be surprising to find that the remaining retards who have not been selected out somehow are in fact more skilled than the average non-retard engineer. It also still doesn't make a >60% women class r…
Looking at the average "non-retard" developer, it would not surprise me at all to discover they were less skilled than the "retards" that persisted with being software developers. Your social ineptitude would also place you in that average pool as this is is a social undertaking as much as an intellectual one. Fail fast, take up the monastic life.