Recent comments in /f/dataisbeautiful

3wteasz t1_j5k5r7q wrote

Thanks for this differentiated response. I am thinking that what actually divides us is that we don't listen to others and the we see the "otherness" instead of the commonalities. Put white people into a bad neighborhood without fathers and you get the same problems as with other ethnicities. It seems that not the ethnicity is/has a problem, but that people are in bad places and that it's mostly minority ethnicities that are in bad places. For instance, if you are ethnic Russian in Eastern Estonia, you'll have a worse chance in this society than "pure" Estonians. So I am then wondering why it's race that is used to explain differences? And why is it that when social scientist speak about diversity, they don't abide by the statistical standards that exist, eg, in the actual diversity science (ecology). These shitty figures just plant weird ideas into the mind of anybody that doesn't fully understand ALL of those issues, and that's most people... Idk, I am simply not convinced it's a good solution to constantly tell people about their differences.

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cremepat OP t1_j5k4x7v wrote

Reply to comment by dimkal in Books I read in 2022 [OC] by cremepat

thanks! I just played around with the data for a week or two, trying to come up with a more data art concept than straight data viz. This ended up being the best concept I popped out

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Garconcl t1_j5k01fu wrote

>some of the women they turned down are 30x times better than around 50% of my current coworkers

Learn to read: "some of the women they turned down are 30x times better than around 50% of my current coworkers" I never said all.

I know 3 of the women that applied for positions equal or below to mine, I worked or studied with them, all extremely skilled. They ended up hiring guys with a lot less verified experience, hell one of them was so infamous that he said he had 15 years of experience from asia, he didn't know the basics, his work had to be peer reviewed for every single detail almost to the point of being re done again.

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My theory is that they don't want to hire women because dealing with the lack of basic manners some of those guys have.

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Bard_Bromance_Club t1_j5jwzii wrote

That is the biggest misnomer for lack of a better word. To expand on your analogy, I can talk about the islamic faith and consider converting to it from a christian background. I can talk about the flaws in christanity compared to judaism compared to islam and so on. Everyone has the free will to engage in these conversations or beliefs. In segregation you are preventing anyone from engaging who doesn't fit a racial profile.

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I have gone into a mosque to talk with an Imam about Islam and was welcomed and encouraged. Would that be the same in this scenario of segregation?

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Adventurous-Moose863 t1_j5jwde8 wrote

If we make an analogy with the U.S., then ethnic Russians are Americans who are descendants of migrants, while ethnic non-Russians are natives.
The difference is that in the U.S. there are racial distinctions between natives and non-natives. Whereas in Russia natives can also be of European appearance. Nevertheless, they have separate languages and sometimes a different religion and culture.

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