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aidrocsid  ·  3260 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Tim Hunt, Sexism and the Cult of Science

Except that if you insist on equality of outcome you ignore the differences between individuals. There's a profound lack of respect for individual decision making on the part of these people who are obsessing over demographics. There's no point, with focus on equality of outcome, that you can ever know things are better. People could be doing exactly what they want and if it's not all perfectly balanced with demographic information we'd still have "a problem". To me people doing what they want is not a problem.

To me the major difference is in how these things are being measured. I don't see people measuring 'relational equality', and frankly I'm not really sure what that is. I do see people constantly measuring equality of outcomes. It's all about what percentage of what group is what demographic. How would you measure relational equality?

But yeah, Tim Hunt is an old dude who still has some sexist ideas. We should certainly try to get away from that. I don't think that we should be encouraging a culture in which people need to resign over differences of opinion either though.