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[–][deleted] 7 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 4 fun -  (4 children)

I'll give you an example.

They loved to talk about women in engineering. They'd show us stats like only 20% of Engineers are women, and only 19% of Engineering grads are women, and use both of these stats to support the idea that women are being discriminated against by tech companies.

I wrote that they were clearly misinterpreting the data. If only 19% of the Engineering graduate hiring pool is women, but 20% of the Engineers are women, their data does not support the conclusion that women are the subject of discriminatory hiring practices in Tech. You can never have 50% women hires if only 19% of the candidates are women. In fact diversity reporting gives clear incentive to hire a woman over a similarly qualified man, which is why at the most desirable tech jobs like Google, the talent is more than 25% women, and they are over-represented.

The problem here is obviously happening much earlier than hiring, and much earlier than college, you have to address this before students choose majors.

I'm clearly correct but I got an F. Imagine getting an F for using data science to interpret the data in the department that does data science. They would rather have me be woke and literally subvert the principles of data science they are supposed to be teaching.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

You're clearly correct, maybe because you are misrepresenting the position a little bit. Regardless;

The problem here is obviously happening much earlier than hiring, and much earlier than college, you have to address this before students choose majors.

Is the correct answer. Incentives toward women for scholarships and other resume-builders are more meaningfully impactful than workplace diversity requirements, in my opinion.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

You're clearly correct, maybe because you are misrepresenting the position a little bit. Regardless;

Yes, I was annoyed that they wanted me to parrot their nonsense when their own data didn't support that conclusion. So I took the opposite position, but I don't think I was out of line. I wasn't saying 'fuck bitches', I was saying 'earlier intervention'. My position was better supported than theirs, and I was clearly punished for lack of a woke opinion

[–]Vulptex[S] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

They won't admit that because the real agenda is just to give women and other "minorities" preferential treatment.

[–]Dragonerne 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It gets worse than this. If you're white or a man, all their algorithms will be designed to discriminate against you.
When an algorithm fails to discriminate against you sufficiently, then they write articles about how "AI is racist against nonwhites" or "sexist against women" and the rightwingers laughs, "see AI is being neutral", not realizing that the AI is not being neutral, just not hostile enough towards men or whites.