The argument isn't that anyone who beats the market is a lucky unicorn, it's that you can't tell if they're a lucky unicorn or not. Beliefs about beating the market aren't really relevant, the argument would be the same…
Replace "boy" or "son" with child and the only paragraph in the article which reads differently is this >Statistically speaking, boys now lag behind girls on every single academic measure; they also get in trouble and…
I always find this parody amusing and educational when discussing the "is a default gendered pronoun sexist?" thing. http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html
Thanks for highlighting this, it was an interesting read if a little long. For those without much time probably the most interesting part is "Massaging the Numbers: Pinker’s Non-Proofs of Long-Term Violence Reduction".
Linked to directly from the article: 1. http://www.google.com/diversity/at-google.html#overall 2. http://www.ncwit.org/blog/did-you-know-demographics-technica...
I'm not sure if we read the same article, there seem to be several critiques: 1. Silicon valley imagines itself to be a meritocracy which is a harmful belief as this is not actually the case. 2. The pipeline problem is…
The argument isn't that anyone who beats the market is a lucky unicorn, it's that you can't tell if they're a lucky unicorn or not. Beliefs about beating the market aren't really relevant, the argument would be the same…
Replace "boy" or "son" with child and the only paragraph in the article which reads differently is this >Statistically speaking, boys now lag behind girls on every single academic measure; they also get in trouble and…
I always find this parody amusing and educational when discussing the "is a default gendered pronoun sexist?" thing. http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html
Thanks for highlighting this, it was an interesting read if a little long. For those without much time probably the most interesting part is "Massaging the Numbers: Pinker’s Non-Proofs of Long-Term Violence Reduction".
Linked to directly from the article: 1. http://www.google.com/diversity/at-google.html#overall 2. http://www.ncwit.org/blog/did-you-know-demographics-technica...
I'm not sure if we read the same article, there seem to be several critiques: 1. Silicon valley imagines itself to be a meritocracy which is a harmful belief as this is not actually the case. 2. The pipeline problem is…