ninavizz
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founder, http://www.equaltogether.com
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Comment · 11 years ago
Could the guys on this thread please stop it with the "pipeline" discussion?! Few women actually cite that to be an issue. It's distracting. Listen more, talk less.
Comment · 12 years ago
PG's not God, he's just another person. As am I.
Comment · 12 years ago
Really? Spend some time in Kentucky, rural areas anywhere, or in Flint Michigan. It's less about finishing any level of education, and more about supportive family access to personal development interests, and an economy you can tap into for work on your way up.
Comment · 12 years ago
There is no "tech skill shortage," there are barriers that need to be broken to empower non-middle-class, US origin n00bz. Likewise: we need to get past our unhealthy obsession w/ only hiring others who mirror ourselves, personally, in startups.
The below article is a superb read, and I highly encourage as a more complete view on the subject.
Comment · 12 years ago
No, no, no, no, no, no, no to more immigration as a solution to a perceived lack of workers.
Comment · 12 years ago
Nope. Also, a 1999 article posted to support a phenomenon that today is continuing to undercut women and people from disenfranchised communities IN THE US from receiving the support they need to enter the Tech labor force, is pretty lousy. WE need to focus on fixing the problem, not having a pity-party over it in support of some very extreme and reflexive solution-ideas (PG's latest piece).
Comment · 12 years ago
Research has context. Individuals as backseat-scholars, often times miss this context. Conducting and looking-to research studies for a living, I know this well.
Not a conversation I think is worth wasting time or energy on, when a beautiful day and so many other things are just bigger priorities. Macro point: efforts to qualify "normal" in specified groups w/in sociology, are dangerous. Especially for young people on the shit end of that 'normal' stick (in this case, women) the damage far outweighs any possible benefits that you or others could reap from the research.
Black people are dumber than white people, per their DNA—haven't you heard? So claimed the scientist who stole another's work to claim the Nobel (and by coincidence, a woman who'd died years previously was the OG scientist—not verified until years later): http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/james-watson-profi...
Stay away from seeking to validate divisive science that normalizes bad social behavior. It benefits nobody, outside of other scientists seeking such studies as chain-links in more socially beneficial work.
Ethics matter. Live it, breathe it, or please exit the entrepreneur and/or science communities.
Comment · 12 years ago
Evangelical Christians have these kind of argument tactics down to a science—how to convince anybody through peer-group research w/in communities of scientists intent on "proving" banalities that socialization more often overcomes—and separately, that feed more limiting stereotypes than they benifit anybody or further productive research.
I am a mechanic and a gearhead. A former motorcycle racer, with a pixie physique. An ice hockey player, and a robotics hobbiest. Your praised research has shaped society to present me and others like me with far more barriers, than it has presented to anyone, benefits with any kind.
Hence: my assertion that your evangelism of this research as anything positive. Share some Eugenics research, why not?
Social consequences from non-scientific interpretstions of scientific work, are more often than not dangerous. Leave the science to the scientists, and be a human engaged with other humans as we choose to co-exist.
Comment · 12 years ago
It's abusive to troll any website posting radical or extreme POVs as "facts." HN is not a place I care to invest my time, and if any person here is sincere in believing that men are superior to women, imho they should be kicked off.
Comment · 12 years ago
50% of society are women. ~30% of tech employees on avg, are women—with women in technical roles or leadership being far less. Black Americans comprise 13% of our population, and Latino Americans comprise 17% of the population. In Tech, they represent ~2% and ~%3% of our workforce, respectively.
Anybody who does not think this is a significant problem, has no business participating in the creation of products for any human to usw in their lives. None.