Hi all
I went to the last FOSS4G Asia in Hyderabad, India, within IIIT university
premises.
There I met wonderful students.
I was actually impressed with a particular female student, very bright, and
with lots of ideas to tell.
I invited her to eat out.
She could not go out of the university,
On 12/08/18 21:14, María Arias de Reyna wrote:
No, this is not a dismissal based on opinions. It is based on facts.
This paper falls into the "correlation does not imply causation"
fallacy:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation
Yes, but lack of correlation refutes
On 13/08/18 07:31, Maria Antonia Brovelli wrote:
in my opinion, we shall distinguish between equality and equity. Even supposing that
there were countries where there is equality (but this is not true: think simply to the
"gender gap", i.e. the difference in salary between men and women), the
Hello everyone,
It is good to see this discussion.
We have a very good community, with talented people from many diverse
ethnicities, cultures and gender.
From my point of view, I would prefer to see a situation where we concentrate
on getting the best representation for a particular event.
Dear Maria, Jonathan, Peter (and All)
in my opinion, we shall distinguish between equality and equity. Even supposing
that there were countries where there is equality (but this is not true: think
simply to the "gender gap", i.e. the difference in salary between men and
women), the point is
Maria,
Beautifully expressed and quite enlightening!
As well as sad for want of the less-aggressive and
more-nurturing instincts women bring to the equation.
We are a world out-of-balance without women truly equal.
And the increasing imbalance to both economics and
the environment exacerbates
I understand it is difficult to see your own privileges and biases[1].
That's why I always prefer that a PoC talks about racism instead of
me. But I can still talk about inequality regarding women. Remember
that 90% of said here applies to all PoC. And that WoC suffer this
from both sides.
So I'm
Hello everyone.
I have been reading this thread thoughtfully and I have several concerns.
Firstly, I am of the belief that there is no scientific production tat is
100% objetive and factual; everything is tainted by the scientist baggage.
Still, it's my opinion that the discussion should not
That's the thing: they jump into that conclusion with biased
prejudices. Right now, we don't have equal opportunity anywhere in the
world. Not women, not PoC. You are proving me right, they are biased!
https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFallacies/169/Strawman-Fallacy
On 12.08.2018 11:28, María Arias de Reyna wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 11:13 AM, Peter Baumann
> wrote:
>> +1 for every word in Jonathan's excellently worded message. Science at its
>> heart
>> is open (!) to any and all provable insights (and even conjectures expressed,
>> and all of that
El dom., 12 ago. 2018 11:58, Jonathan Moules
escribió:
> > No, this is not a dismissal based on opinions. It is based on facts.
> This paper falls into the "correlation does not imply causation"
> fallacy:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation
>
> You will find
> No, this is not a dismissal based on opinions. It is based on facts.
This paper falls into the "correlation does not imply causation"
fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation
You will find it is rarely the case that a peer-reviewed scientific
paper in
On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 11:13 AM, Peter Baumann
wrote:
> +1 for every word in Jonathan's excellently worded message. Science at its
> heart
> is open (!) to any and all provable insights (and even conjectures expressed,
> and all of that may be disproven of course), which works only if not
On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 11:34 PM, Jonathan Moules
wrote:
>> Let me tell you something: having legal rights doesn't mean you have
>> equal opportunities. Those studies are falling into the wrong
>> conclusions probably because bias of the researchers.
>
>
> Apologies, but that's a general
+1 for every word in Jonathan's excellently worded message. Science at its heart
is open (!) to any and all provable insights (and even conjectures expressed,
and all of that may be disproven of course), which works only if not driven by
dogmas wiping out unwanted results upfront as "wrong
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