I think women have, can &will bring a lot to STEM including (I hope) my daughter who intends to go into it. But not by virtue of being womenhttps://twitter.com/MiriamMakEnergy/status/925772049783586817 …
How about it? You can try empathising with it but I think you still have to follow it's programming to make it work.
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I'm talking about designing things that people are going to use. There isn't one correct answer, but lots of different possibilities. For
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example, the cyber security field is kind of hamstrung by the number of experts who are indifferent to the needs of the vast majority of
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users, focusing on how to make system that extremely knowledgeable people like them can use optimally, rather than preventing normies from
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getting phished and other stuff that matters to the other 99% of users.
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OK, but I'm not sure how this relates to male and female perspectives.
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The problem is that security and much of tech is dominated by high systematizing low empathizing individuals, which is suboptimal. As such
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it might make sense to try and recruit for more empathetic individuals. One quick and dirty way to do that is affirmative action for women.
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Similar arguments apply to engineering and soft sciences as well. It's not PC to say that we need more women in STEM b/c they are on average
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But tech always has to interface with humans at some point, & the design of those interfaces could benefit A LOT from strong empathy.
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Empathy as a skill is ultimately a form of imagination. What if I were that pill addict? similar to What if I were riding a beam of light?
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