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Accused of Underpaying Women, Google Says It's Too Expensive To Get Wage Data (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Google argued that it was too financially burdensome and logistically challenging to compile and hand over salary records that the government has requested, sparking a strong rebuke from the U.S. Department of Labor (DoL), which has accused the Silicon Valley firm of underpaying women. Google officials testified in federal court on Friday that it would have to spend up to 500 hours of work and $100,000 to comply with investigators' ongoing demands for wage data that the DoL believes will help explain why the technology corporation appears to be systematically discriminating against women. Noting Google's nearly $28 billion annual income as one of the most profitable companies in the U.S., DoL attorney Ian Eliasoph scoffed at the company's defense, saying, "Google would be able to absorb the cost as easy as a dry kitchen sponge could absorb a single drop of water."
They would also be fiscally stupid NOT to comply with this request.
1. Better to face the music now, because you're just adding more people over a longer term who can sue your ass.
2. You are in breach of your federal contract. Damages - let us count the ways that count to google (ie: $$$). Nonperformance, moral, punitive, requirement to submit to and pay for more intensive auditing fir x number of years, loss of revenue from said government contracts ..
3. Since your are blatantly acting like a monopoly, maybe it's time to take a chainsaw to you and carve you up like the Europeans want.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
No, because a systematic bias will show anyway if there is one, and in contrast if there isn't one then the data will still show the absence of one. You need to learn a lot more about statistics.
The review process can be problematic too, but it is possible to review the review process to determine that.
Anti-feminists want you to think that bias is undetectable and that all methods of evaluating it are flawed. They would prefer we didn't even try, it seems.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Hey broham - did you stop raping goats yet?