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Google Diversity Report Straight Out of 'How To Lie With Statistics' Playbook
theodp writes: Among the books recommended by Bill Gates for beach reading this summer is How to Lie With Statistics, the published-in-1954-but-timely-as-ever introduction to the (mis)use of statistics. So, how can one lie with statistics? "Sometimes it is percentages that are given and raw figures that are missing," explains the book, "and this can be deceptive too." So, does this explain Google's just-released Diversity Report and the accompanying chock-full-o-percentages narrative (find-all-%-image), which boasts "the Black community in grew [sic] by 38 percent", while the less-impressive raw figures — e.g., the number of Google employees increased by 5,928, but the ranks of Black females only increased by 35 (less than 0.6% of the net increase) — are relegated to a PDF of its EEO-1 Report that's linked to in the fine-print footnotes? To be fair to Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Apple and Amazon didn't want people to see their EEO-1 numbers, either.
Balls. Grow some.
This.
Stop complaining about your fear of being persecuted by the political correctness police or being accused of racism or whatever. Those are just excuses to keep people different to yourself out of the workplace, to protect your feelings and not fuel your paranoia.
Act like a grown up and stop making excuses. If you do have a problem with minorities then it's your problem, if not then stop worrying and deal with any bullshit as it comes. Don't use it as an excuse to keep others down.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
It's more than that though.
It's also about making sure that when non white men apply they're actually evaluated on merit rather than on their perceived race and/or gender.
http://www.chicagobooth.edu/ca...
http://www.pnas.org/content/10...
But yes, the entire thing is actually about making sure the best people get the job.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
No, it's not.
Yes it is.
To do that, you'd need an analysis that includes much more
Well done, clap clap. You've just stated that that information you claimed was unnecessary is in fact necessary (along with a bunch of other stuff). Smooth. You just really angrily proved me right and rebutted your own arguemnt.
Go take your zero knowledge SJW
You know if you weren't so outraged about "SJW" you'd be able to engage your brain and think rationally and sound an awful lot less silly.
SJW n. One who posts facts.