Okay, I knew Dave Jones / EEVblog had some poor attitudes, but I didn't realize it was this bad. If you're following him, know that this is what you're condoning.https://twitter.com/MLE_Online/status/1269082992414097408 …
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On the other hand, e.g. life sciences has mostly female students here. Is it a sign of discrimination? But to make it clear: no statistical discussion ever, ever, justifies imposing ANY assumptions on a particular person. This is what would be awful. Didn't see Dave do that.
He said that prominent women engineers only got on magazine covers because they're women.
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It's not a big gap from "statistically women aren't engineers" to "you're not a real engineer because you're a women", hence we don't say the former either.
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And women *are* discriminated against due to self-reinforcement feedback effects, thus pushing things in the other direction is *required* to be actually fair.
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This statement in general wouldn't be good. Yet unfortunately I've also seen how things work in academia nowadays - had our funding rejected because not enough women volunteered for the research topic (officially!). Actual research topic was not discussed according to postdocs1/2
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Female students were written into positions they didn't even have interest in just just to make statistics better. And by no means do we have few female researchers here - they were just not inteterested in this particular topic. This is not how things should work.
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