Clearly Paul Graham must take steps to change this. I'm not saying he is to blame, but if he does not act he is obviously sexist and a part of the problem.
> In other words, a hugely disproportionate bunch of white guys took the test.
I wondered how many white male students took the test, so I downloaded the Excel spreadsheet.
One student took the AP CS exam in Mississippi. One. And the spreadsheet doesn't seem to indicate whether he passed or failed. (What does an asterisk there indicate?)
This is sad for Mississippi in general, but this particular headline seems to have zero insights on women in tech.
(The number was 11 for Montana, all of them presumably white males, but this is also not super interesting considering that over 95% of Montana is either caucasian or native american. If you barely have any hispanics students in your state, you're barely going to have any hispanic students taking any exam.)
This is such a sensationalistic title, especially given the sheer pathetic numbers we're dealing with here.
The title should be "Virtually no one took the AP Computer Science Test in Mississippi, Montana".
I know we have issues in the tech field, but extremist postmodern social justice like this is nauseating and idiotic. This really isn't any better than a white nationalist who sees absolutely everything as a matter of race.
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 20.2 ms ] threadI wondered how many white male students took the test, so I downloaded the Excel spreadsheet.
One student took the AP CS exam in Mississippi. One. And the spreadsheet doesn't seem to indicate whether he passed or failed. (What does an asterisk there indicate?)
This is sad for Mississippi in general, but this particular headline seems to have zero insights on women in tech.
(The number was 11 for Montana, all of them presumably white males, but this is also not super interesting considering that over 95% of Montana is either caucasian or native american. If you barely have any hispanics students in your state, you're barely going to have any hispanic students taking any exam.)
If you want to have a look at the data yourself, follow the link in the article to http://home.cc.gatech.edu/ice-gt/556
This is such a sensationalistic title, especially given the sheer pathetic numbers we're dealing with here.
The title should be "Virtually no one took the AP Computer Science Test in Mississippi, Montana".
I know we have issues in the tech field, but extremist postmodern social justice like this is nauseating and idiotic. This really isn't any better than a white nationalist who sees absolutely everything as a matter of race.