Your sample is biased in more ways than you may realize. By only "polling" mid-career professionals, you are introducing a survivor bias to the conclusions.
There might actually be a biological reason why gynecology has a gender disparity. So setting that aside, no other sub-specialty has as much gender disparity as computer science, where only 18% of CS majors are women.
So you found a table that lists 16 different industries and found 6 that had notable gender bias. That is not proof of biological preference; that is cherry-picking data. Where does scientific and professional services (57%/43%) fit into your biological gender theory? How about finance, insurance, real estate, rental and leasing (45%/55%)? And why on earth would keyboard jockies in CS or IT be categorized as "hunt and gather" activities?
Let's talk about medicine. Women make up roughly 47% of medical school graduates. The gender difference is nurses. And nearly every nursing school and hospital has programs to actively recruit, train and hire more male nurses. Everybody recognizes the issue and every institution is working to address it. CS and IT should be doing the same.
What it did say was that it may be biological differences that women ON AVERAGE have different interests than men and that it is unwise to try to get 50% of employees be women.
If that were true, then every career field would be dominated by one gender or the other. Law, Finance, Medicine: these are fields that were all male-dominated but have reached close to gender parity. There is nothing special about CS or IT, that would make gender preferences more pronounced.
I am not a female engineer, but I work in a scientific field (biomedical research) that is at gender parity. Medicine is at gender parity. Chemistry is at gender parity. Women are even well represented in the computational subdivisions of these fields. These are not the "soft" sciences they might have been 20 years ago; this is quantitative, computationally intensive research. I know women who can put together an fMRI from scratch and write the algorithms for novel data analysis. There is no question that women can and do excel in technical and scientific fields. The only question is why the CS and IT, particularly the Silicon Valley start up culture, actively drive women away.
So, if there were an mob of Nazis and at least one actually resorted to violence, that would be incitement to violence, right? Because that is what actually happened.
Niemöller wasn't talking about censorship. He was talking about NAZIS arresting and killing people. Abusing that quote to defend actual NAZIS is just mind-boggling.
You're talking about the legal limits of free speech. These are not necessarily the same the moral limits of free speech. Clouldflare or any other private company is under no obligation to apply the Brandenburg test to determine whether hate speech is protected.
A core tenant of Nazis is violence against certain people. Therefore, promotion of Nazi ideas is inherently incitement to violence, which is not protected by speech.
Bands and movies in the park work because they pay no property tax and the park is maintained by tax dollars. If the bands and movies actually had to generate enough revenue to cover year-round park costs, then they would be bust. That's the problem that drive-ins face. Out of 365 nights per year, how many are "beautiful, warm nights"? In most of North America, its maybe a 1/3rd or less.
The problem with drive-ins is that they are at the mercy of the weather. Rain or snow reduces the visibility. If its too hot or too cold, people run their cars for the AC and you end up with in parking lot full of idling cars.
A lot of people thought their money increased 12-fold under Bernie Madoff and Charles Ponzi, too. Until you actually the sell the stock, you haven't made a dime.
Memoirs are when you write about events that happened to you and how those events affected you. So like the AC asked, did you actually watch your uncle fuck a tree and get stung in the dick by bees? Because, if not, we're back to theory B, that you're just a P.O.S. This is confirmed by your gratuitous affiliate link.
Why do you make up such ridiculous stupid stories? Even if the story was true, any reasonable person would have the decency to keep it a secret. Which leaves only two possibilities:
(a) you're a pathological liar and every claim you make about yourself should be treated as attention whoring tall tales or
(b) you are absolutely not a reasonable nor decent person; you're a P.O.S. who will use your family's shameful past in a misguided attempt to entertain strangers on the internet.
Did anyone else immediately think of nuclear fusion?
Yes. Because that is the exact comparison that researcher in the article was making:
When I was in high school, I thought I was going to become a physicist and work on developing fusion,” Amory says. “Then I started working on this, and now I wonder what we’re going to have first: workable fusion or a male pill?”
That's a big "fuck you" to all the engineers, scientists, investors who have been working on the project, even before Musk ever came along. Or do you think that each Tesla is personally designed and hand-made by Musk himself?
He's also been leading the only really successful team for privatized space.
SpaceX is no more private than ULA . SpaceX has some interesting engineering concepts to improve costs, but the business model isn't any different than any other contractor.
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Your sample is biased in more ways than you may realize. By only "polling" mid-career professionals, you are introducing a survivor bias to the conclusions.
Very interesting. Maybe that's the answer. It would at least be worthwhile to see such an approach applied at more institutions.
There might actually be a biological reason why gynecology has a gender disparity. So setting that aside, no other sub-specialty has as much gender disparity as computer science, where only 18% of CS majors are women.
Let's talk about medicine. Women make up roughly 47% of medical school graduates. The gender difference is nurses. And nearly every nursing school and hospital has programs to actively recruit, train and hire more male nurses. Everybody recognizes the issue and every institution is working to address it. CS and IT should be doing the same.
What it did say was that it may be biological differences that women ON AVERAGE have different interests than men and that it is unwise to try to get 50% of employees be women.
If that were true, then every career field would be dominated by one gender or the other. Law, Finance, Medicine: these are fields that were all male-dominated but have reached close to gender parity. There is nothing special about CS or IT, that would make gender preferences more pronounced.
Only if you think that opinions are driven exclusively by biology.
I am not a female engineer, but I work in a scientific field (biomedical research) that is at gender parity. Medicine is at gender parity. Chemistry is at gender parity. Women are even well represented in the computational subdivisions of these fields. These are not the "soft" sciences they might have been 20 years ago; this is quantitative, computationally intensive research. I know women who can put together an fMRI from scratch and write the algorithms for novel data analysis. There is no question that women can and do excel in technical and scientific fields. The only question is why the CS and IT, particularly the Silicon Valley start up culture, actively drive women away.
So, if there were an mob of Nazis and at least one actually resorted to violence, that would be incitement to violence, right? Because that is what actually happened.
Niemöller wasn't talking about censorship. He was talking about NAZIS arresting and killing people. Abusing that quote to defend actual NAZIS is just mind-boggling.
Your Islam example supports my point. How many companies are willing to host Al-Qaeda or ISIS websites?
Are you fucking quoting Niemöller to defend actual, self-identified NAZIS? Does the irony burn?
http://gizmodo.com/godwin-of-g...
You're talking about the legal limits of free speech. These are not necessarily the same the moral limits of free speech. Clouldflare or any other private company is under no obligation to apply the Brandenburg test to determine whether hate speech is protected.
A core tenant of Nazis is violence against certain people. Therefore, promotion of Nazi ideas is inherently incitement to violence, which is not protected by speech.
Bands and movies in the park work because they pay no property tax and the park is maintained by tax dollars. If the bands and movies actually had to generate enough revenue to cover year-round park costs, then they would be bust. That's the problem that drive-ins face. Out of 365 nights per year, how many are "beautiful, warm nights"? In most of North America, its maybe a 1/3rd or less.
There are plenty of Alamo Drafthouse-style theaters these days. I've been going to Cinebarre for so long, I've forgotten that this is even a problem.
The problem with drive-ins is that they are at the mercy of the weather. Rain or snow reduces the visibility. If its too hot or too cold, people run their cars for the AC and you end up with in parking lot full of idling cars.
A lot of people thought their money increased 12-fold under Bernie Madoff and Charles Ponzi, too. Until you actually the sell the stock, you haven't made a dime.
Besides the negatives that you've already brought up, driving is also significantly more dangerous.
Memoirs are when you write about events that happened to you and how those events affected you. So like the AC asked, did you actually watch your uncle fuck a tree and get stung in the dick by bees? Because, if not, we're back to theory B, that you're just a P.O.S. This is confirmed by your gratuitous affiliate link.
(a) you're a pathological liar and every claim you make about yourself should be treated as attention whoring tall tales or
(b) you are absolutely not a reasonable nor decent person; you're a P.O.S. who will use your family's shameful past in a misguided attempt to entertain strangers on the internet.
http://www.bgsu.edu/ncfmr/reso...
Did anyone else immediately think of nuclear fusion?
Yes. Because that is the exact comparison that researcher in the article was making:
When I was in high school, I thought I was going to become a physicist and work on developing fusion,” Amory says. “Then I started working on this, and now I wonder what we’re going to have first: workable fusion or a male pill?”
Musk on the other hand has single handedly
That's a big "fuck you" to all the engineers, scientists, investors who have been working on the project, even before Musk ever came along. Or do you think that each Tesla is personally designed and hand-made by Musk himself?
He's also been leading the only really successful team for privatized space.
SpaceX is no more private than ULA . SpaceX has some interesting engineering concepts to improve costs, but the business model isn't any different than any other contractor.
When you have enough money, you just pay other people to do the work and take credit at photo ops.