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  1. ISO #51

    Re: Best man for the job

    Quote Originally Posted by aamirus View Post
    @Oberon
    @oops_ur_dead

    you've basically already had this argument before in previous threads as mag expressed his belief that asians are genetically smarter than whites and whites are genetically smarter than blacks. You're basically just getting into the same cycle here with who would be best at a job. I'm just saying you two can have at it if you like but it's probably a waste of both your times!
    I said what now?

  2. ISO #52

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  4. ISO #54

    Re: Best man for the job

    Quote Originally Posted by Oberon View Post
    I actually disagree. There is no reason to suspect diversity of ethnicity leads to diversity of thought (which is desirable). The burden of proof is on the people making that claim. You need a solid explanation as to why it would do that.
    Yeah, but that is why Oops gave this link as the 'burden of proof' which is a study that drew the conclusion diversity of ethnicity drives company profitability. He has literally given exactly what you are asking for.

    I have also seen the bad end of diversity. When I was in the oil field there was a floorhand who was a black lesbian female. She was an absolutely awful floorhand with no mechanical inclination, had no motivation to troubleshoot or learn, poor work ethic and lacked the physical strength to do the work her position required. Multiple people quit because they just couldn't work with her and I ended up leaving that company because my knees started going out. Theres a super heavy chunk of iron called the 'pipe slips' that when your tripping pipe you gotta pull over and over again (hundreds to thousands of times in a 12 hour shift.) Its actually so heavy its against every company in Americas policy to have a person pull them alone but she simply didnt have the strength to help much and after just 3 hitches working with her my knees started having problems. She is still working for Patterson UTI today because they are terrified to fire her.

    I think diversity is very important and can be a huge asset to company's but the way its enforced is a total double standard. Theres actually a large push in construction management to get females in those positions because study's have shown women are better at multitasking in the way that job requires than men. But push to put men in oilfield jobs because they are physically more capable of the work and its discrimination.
    Last edited by Helz; February 1st, 2021 at 12:42 PM.

  5. ISO #55

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    Quote Originally Posted by aamirus View Post
    @Oberon
    @oops_ur_dead

    you've basically already had this argument before in previous threads as mag expressed his belief that asians are genetically smarter than whites and whites are genetically smarter than blacks.
    Not to necro a old conversation but I could totally see an argument for biological inclination to certain intellectual tasks although it hits the brick wall of 'nature vs nurture'. I would point out that being better at something does not mean your not also worse at something else and I really disagree with a lot of the way intelligence is measured. I have a friend most would consider pretty dumb but he runs circles around me effortlessly in many aspects of construction and mechanics. Just because I can fuck with statistics and ramble about nerdy shit doesn't mean I am actually more intelligent than him imo.

  6. ISO #56

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    I suppose that’s true but it’s just something that shows companies that are more diverse make more money. It does not explain why diversity ‘drives change’ as they put it, merely asserts it. This is the problem. I don’t want to repeat the clichéd ‘correlation does not equal causation’ but it’s literally true. If they conclude that diversity CAUSES an increase in profit then they need to come up with a really good reason as to why it would do that. It might not be wrong either depending on where it causes an increase in profit; if it’s an HR thing I could see it contributing. On the other hand if they’re just related but a bit more distantly and not in a causal way then you could put it down to a number of factors, such as companies seeking to become more diverse bc of marketing, or bc of seeing that companies that are diverse make more money, kinda like a self fulfilling prophesy. On the other hand it could be completely coincidental: companies that make lots of money can afford to sacrifice competitiveness, and they became diverse after they started making more money. I think this is especially true for IT companies, which make lots of money AND are known for being diverse.

  7. ISO #57

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    Quote Originally Posted by Oberon View Post
    I suppose that’s true but it’s just something that shows companies that are more diverse make more money. It does not explain why diversity ‘drives change’ as they put it, merely asserts it. This is the problem. I don’t want to repeat the clichéd ‘correlation does not equal causation’ but it’s literally true. If they conclude that diversity CAUSES an increase in profit then they need to come up with a really good reason as to why it would do that. It might not be wrong either depending on where it causes an increase in profit; if it’s an HR thing I could see it contributing. On the other hand if they’re just related but a bit more distantly and not in a causal way then you could put it down to a number of factors, such as companies seeking to become more diverse bc of marketing, or bc of seeing that companies that are diverse make more money, kinda like a self fulfilling prophesy. On the other hand it could be completely coincidental: companies that make lots of money can afford to sacrifice competitiveness, and they became diverse after they started making more money. I think this is especially true for IT companies, which make lots of money AND are known for being diverse.
    Dude at this point you're just wilfully being ignorant lmao. Every single one of those articles goes into why diversity increases profitability and drives innovation.

    You've literally not read a single thing I posted.

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  10. ISO #60

    Re: Best man for the job

    I think talking about intelligence or genetic differences between groups are two separate conversations entirely. I really don’t want to get into either of these two topics because we could write pages upon pages about them and still not be done with them. I’m sticking to cultural differences, although even if you look at cultural differences, people within the same culture differ significantly amongst themselves to begin with in terms of ability, innate intelligence, personality, ect. I would honestly not believe that between-group differences matter more than within-group differences. It opens you up to the idea that maybe certain groups are better than others if that’s the case and I’m fairly certain the people who are ‘for diversity’ do not want to hear that claim even though it is directly logically derived from it. After all, if ethnicity matters more or as much as natural ability, you can always claim certain ethnicities are better than others, and what’s to stop ppl from saying wthnicity X should not do job Y because they suck at it? And no for the record I do not agree with this train of thought of at all, it is absolutely unequivocally horrid and should never be considered for even half a second. The only way to deal with that is to look at what’s in people’s heads and not at what language they speak.

  11. ISO #61

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    Quote Originally Posted by OzyWho View Post
    Oberon, if I make an observation - is the observation invalid until I can come up with an explanation how it came to be?
    For example, gravity doesn't exist until someone explains it?
    Gravity is reasonable.
    The idea that diversity of culture matters more than diversity of thought is not.

  12. ISO #62

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    Then @oops please explain the observed effect. It is not enough to observe that companies that make more money are more diverse. I can observe that the speedometer of a car goes up when it goes faster and conclude that the speedometer causes the increase in speed and I would be dead wrong. If you believe that diversity increases profit, i.e. that it causes an increase in profit, I challenge you to explain it. Maybe I didn’t read it the articles and they did explain it; if so I’m giving you the opportunity to prove me wrong and argue that instead diversity does CAUSE an increase in profit.

  13. ISO #63

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    Quote Originally Posted by Oberon View Post
    Then @oops please explain the observed effect. It is not enough to observe that companies that make more money are more diverse. I can observe that the speedometer of a car goes up when it goes faster and conclude that the speedometer causes the increase in speed and I would be dead wrong. If you believe that diversity increases profit, i.e. that it causes an increase in profit, I challenge you to explain it. Maybe I didn’t read it the articles and they did explain it; if so I’m giving you the opportunity to prove me wrong and argue that instead diversity does CAUSE an increase in profit.
    No, I'm not going to read the articles out loud for you. I've already done the research for you, you have to put in your part of the effort.

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  15. ISO #65

    Re: Best man for the job

    Quote Originally Posted by Oberon View Post
    Gravity is reasonable.
    The idea that diversity of culture matters more than diversity of thought is not.
    I mean, the papers must be based on observations. A study without observations is no study at all, but just a philosophical blog post with a fancy name.

    Therefore I assume the links must have observations in them.

    My question is, how can you deny observations?

    In science, usually, observations stay the same and it's the conclusions that change over time.

    Fmpov you're not arguing against a conclusion but a observation.

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  17. ISO #67

    Re: Best man for the job

    Quote Originally Posted by OzyWho View Post
    I mean, the papers must be based on observations. A study without observations is no study at all, but just a philosophical blog post with a fancy name.

    Therefore I assume the links must have observations in them.

    My question is, how can you deny observations?

    In science, usually, observations stay the same and it's the conclusions that change over time.

    Fmpov you're not arguing against a conclusion but a observation.
    I'm not arguing against the observation as much as I am arguing against the conclusion. To some degree you are right because I have my suspicions the observations are flawed in some manner though even if they weren't the conclusion that diversity -> profit is incorrect. I did not even say wrong, I said incorrect because it could be that they're related but I'm pretty strongly opposed to the idea that the link is causal. If the link is causal at all I would sooner argue that profit -> diversity.

  18. ISO #68

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    Quote Originally Posted by Oberon View Post
    I'm not arguing against the observation as much as I am arguing against the conclusion. To some degree you are right because I have my suspicions the observations are flawed in some manner though even if they weren't the conclusion that diversity -> profit is incorrect. I did not even say wrong, I said incorrect because it could be that they're related but I'm pretty strongly opposed to the idea that the link is causal. If the link is causal at all I would sooner argue that profit -> diversity.
    I like this post.

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  20. ISO #70

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    diversity.png
    I agree with points two and five. One, three and four are exactly the ones I have problem with. Basically 60% of their conclusion is wrong. This is from their article.
    Separately:

    1) I can agree with this if they're using the word 'diversity' to refer to equality: of course that opening up your business for talented people and ignoring their group membership raises profits. If you're a bigot and you hire the dumber straight guy over the bright gay guy then of course your profit will suffer lol, that's a no-brainer. IF on the other hand they're referring to actual 'diversity' (i.e. preferring minority groups or whatever just because), they are literally committing the same mistake as the bigot who didn't hire the gay guy just because and their profit WILL suffer just as much lol.

    2) I've seen statistics related to women and decision making and I can trust this. I'm not so sure about minority groups being key consumer decision makers; after all, women are not exactly a minority group lol. And there's a very obvious argument for why women make consumer decisions: men want sex. It's so fucking simple even a fool could understand it. No issue with it and I could see an argument for 'diversity' helping profit here.

    3) I highly doubt this is the case. Even assuming ppl aren't bigoted racists (which for some reason... this study does assume, so how the fuck did they come to this conclusion), inevitably cultural differences will flare up and a misunderstanding will ensue. For example in Japan, I believe, it is considered polite to barf at the dinner table bc it's a sign you liked the meal. Likewise in Indonesia it's actually rude to compliment cooking bc it implies the food could've been bad (lol). To give an example that is a bit more useful, Dutch people are very direct and English people are NOT. Ppl not used to Dutch directness can find some of the shit Dutch ppl say quite rude; aside from that Dutch and especially German people are not particularly friendly; they're polite but it's quite hard to make friends with a Dutch person, and they're fairly intraverted - they're not particularly keen on talking to strangers, compared to say Spanish people. In short, it makes no sense to draw the conclusion they did.

    4) I don't believe this. The last sentence especially irks me terribly. If diverse groups perform better than experts why the fuck do we even have universities or professions? Just force ppl to mix and to hell with whatever they think, because it's useful, right? Except it's not happening - which in itself is an argument against this way of thinking. I would like to see them produce evidence of this.

    5) Obviously a no-brainer. I don't need to explain this. I agree with it.

  21. ISO #71

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    Quote Originally Posted by oops_ur_dead View Post
    Here's another clever paper for you to ignore, where they specifically address the causal relationship between hiring women and improvement in performance of venture capital firms:

    https://www.nber.org/system/files/wo...454/w23454.pdf
    Tbh, it gives assertions based on statistics.
    Not sure if could ask for something more, based on the topic. But I know that in science "assertions based on statistics" studies are the least credible.
    That's not to say they're necessarily wrong, but rather that there's a legitimate reason to question such papers.

  22. ISO #72

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    You've misinterpreted point one. Their greater point is that having diverse teams means the company will be more likely to retain talent from a more diverse pool of people. So if you have a black person who's an absolute genius in their field then the argument is that they would be more likely to work for a more diverse company than a homogeneously (presumably white) company, all other things equal. Hence the company loses out on acquiring great talent due to lack of diversity. That isn't hard to believe for me.

    Point three is debatable, sure. Though anecdotally I can say there is more often conflict and resentment when diversity is lacking, especially when it comes to accusations of preferring one's own culture/nationality in hiring and promotions and discrimination due to gender.

    The last sentence of point four is a bit unclear, and I can't find the source for it to figure out what they meant. However, it is absolutely the case that diverse groups outperform homogeneous groups in many tasks:
    https://hbr.org/2016/11/why-diverse-teams-are-smarter

  23. ISO #73

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    Quote Originally Posted by OzyWho View Post
    Tbh, it gives assertions based on statistics.
    Not sure if could ask for something more, based on the topic. But I know that in science "assertions based on statistics" studies are the least credible.
    That's not to say they're necessarily wrong, but rather that there's a legitimate reason to question such papers.
    i don't think there'd really be a way to get a proper study to prove that the correlation is due to a causation here. You'd have to get two real companies that start out with everything exactly the same except for the level of diversity in their personnel and then you'd also have to do that a decent number of times to ensure there's no statistical bias. But what a couple of the links oops' has given do is they first note the correlation itself, and then they test several hypothesis' for why the correlation exists.

    Quote Originally Posted by Oberon View Post
    diversity.png
    I agree with points two and five. One, three and four are exactly the ones I have problem with. Basically 60% of their conclusion is wrong. This is from their article.
    Separately:

    1) I can agree with this if they're using the word 'diversity' to refer to equality: of course that opening up your business for talented people and ignoring their group membership raises profits. If you're a bigot and you hire the dumber straight guy over the bright gay guy then of course your profit will suffer lol, that's a no-brainer. IF on the other hand they're referring to actual 'diversity' (i.e. preferring minority groups or whatever just because), they are literally committing the same mistake as the bigot who didn't hire the gay guy just because and their profit WILL suffer just as much lol.

    2) I've seen statistics related to women and decision making and I can trust this. I'm not so sure about minority groups being key consumer decision makers; after all, women are not exactly a minority group lol. And there's a very obvious argument for why women make consumer decisions: men want sex. It's so fucking simple even a fool could understand it. No issue with it and I could see an argument for 'diversity' helping profit here.

    3) I highly doubt this is the case. Even assuming ppl aren't bigoted racists (which for some reason... this study does assume, so how the fuck did they come to this conclusion), inevitably cultural differences will flare up and a misunderstanding will ensue. For example in Japan, I believe, it is considered polite to barf at the dinner table bc it's a sign you liked the meal. Likewise in Indonesia it's actually rude to compliment cooking bc it implies the food could've been bad (lol). To give an example that is a bit more useful, Dutch people are very direct and English people are NOT. Ppl not used to Dutch directness can find some of the shit Dutch ppl say quite rude; aside from that Dutch and especially German people are not particularly friendly; they're polite but it's quite hard to make friends with a Dutch person, and they're fairly intraverted - they're not particularly keen on talking to strangers, compared to say Spanish people. In short, it makes no sense to draw the conclusion they did.

    4) I don't believe this. The last sentence especially irks me terribly. If diverse groups perform better than experts why the fuck do we even have universities or professions? Just force ppl to mix and to hell with whatever they think, because it's useful, right? Except it's not happening - which in itself is an argument against this way of thinking. I would like to see them produce evidence of this.

    5) Obviously a no-brainer. I don't need to explain this. I agree with it.
    I think with 1 they are saying that if I'm, for example, a top talent in a certain field and happen to be female, and two nearly identical places are offering me a job, with the one difference being that one of those places already has plenty of other women working there but the other has few or none, I'm more likely to pick the first one. Which makes sense. If there are few or none then I would be questioning: why? Is it a hostile environment and all the others have quit? Will i be able to fit in considering how objectively different I'd be from the others? The place with more people 'like you' just seems more likely to be a place you'd be happy.
    I don't think they were trying to say that simply replacing all the men with women would keep increasing the company's performance. They were saying that just having a more equal number of people would be beneficial.

    With 3 I think they're saying that the more diverse a group is, the less likely you're going to ACT like a bigoted racist.

    With 4 I'd like to point out something you've probably missed which is that most of these studies are looking at multiple different types of "diversity". Ethnicity, and sex, sure, but also like if they come from different former professions as well. Let's imagine I'm making a video game like Lara Croft Tomb Raider, set in Egypt. Well sure, in general you may just want to hire programmers. With no attempt to increase diversity, you might end up with all your programmers being males who are not very athletic and have never been to egypt. I'd argue the game might be better and more realistic if you at least had some female presence to give an insight on how a female character should behave. And if you had someone with a rock-climbing background or exercise science, they might have insights into the mechanics of how the player model should move about. And maybe it would help to have someone with an Egyptian background to give a better portrayal of Egypt and the people there. An archaeologist or historian type to help with the construction of the tombs? Maybe Lara is bi. Might a bisexual person help with insight into her mindset? Maybe the game is laggy and the code is slow. A mathematician might help your coders with optimizing the number of operations they need to use.
    And the point is to generalize this concept - in general the more different insights and backgrounds you can leverage will give you a general boost to all your projects.

    I thought you were doing a phd or something like that? In mine at least, we constantly collaborate with professors and students from other disciplines in our research.
    Have you ever heard the tragedy of Darth Jar Jar the wise?

  24. ISO #74

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    Well yeah I agree that not all diversity is bad of course, but I'm stressing diversity of thought, which different disciplines definitely do come under
    But that being said, I won't hire an aeronautics expert to design a nuclear power plant
    Not all diversity of thought is useful in every scenario, because most thoughts simply aren't useful for everything, and some thoughts are useless in the general case
    I'm doing a bachelor's atm, I'm an undergrad, but yeah, my field of study is itself a mishmash of different academic disciplines

  25. ISO #75

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    Quote Originally Posted by OzyWho View Post
    Tbh, it gives assertions based on statistics.
    Not sure if could ask for something more, based on the topic. But I know that in science "assertions based on statistics" studies are the least credible.
    That's not to say they're necessarily wrong, but rather that there's a legitimate reason to question such papers.
    Quote Originally Posted by aamirus View Post
    i don't think there'd really be a way to get a proper study to prove that the correlation is due to a causation here. You'd have to get two real companies that start out with everything exactly the same except for the level of diversity in their personnel and then you'd also have to do that a decent number of times to ensure there's no statistical bias. But what a couple of the links oops' has given do is they first note the correlation itself, and then they test several hypothesis' for why the correlation exists.
    They took a pretty cool approach in that paper to establish a causal relationship. First they found out that senior partners at VC firms having more daughters is correlated to them hiring more female employees. Clearly there, the relationship must be causal; there's no way that a partner hiring female employees will cause them to have more daughters, hence we can conclude that senior partners having more daughters leads them to hire more female employees. Then, they found a significant correlation between the number of daughters that senior partners at VC firms have and the firm's performance, which is clearly a one-way causal relationship. Pretty cool stuff.

    The criticism could be raised, though, that having daughters somehow influences a partner's investment habits for the better. It isn't clear how, if at all, they corrected for that. Even if that is the case, it still kinda points to diversity being a good thing if having daughters turns someone into a better investor.

  26. ISO #76

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    I think diversity of thought helps solve problems that require creativity, but is less useful in the general case
    Tbh it's probably true of intelligence in general. The less creativity you require to solve a given problem, the less intelligent you will have to be to solve it
    And consequently having access to different perspectives is less necessary

  27. ISO #77

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    Quote Originally Posted by oops_ur_dead View Post
    They took a pretty cool approach in that paper to establish a causal relationship. First they found out that senior partners at VC firms having more daughters is correlated to them hiring more female employees. Clearly there, the relationship must be causal; there's no way that a partner hiring female employees will cause them to have more daughters, hence we can conclude that senior partners having more daughters leads them to hire more female employees. Then, they found a significant correlation between the number of daughters that senior partners at VC firms have and the firm's performance, which is clearly a one-way causal relationship. Pretty cool stuff.

    The criticism could be raised, though, that having daughters somehow influences a partner's investment habits for the better. It isn't clear how, if at all, they corrected for that. Even if that is the case, it still kinda points to diversity being a good thing if having daughters turns someone into a better investor.
    Sorry, I meant proportion of daughters, not number of daughters. The former clearly isn't influenced by hiring patterns or firm performance, while the latter could be.

  28. ISO #78

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    Quote Originally Posted by Oberon View Post
    Well yeah I agree that not all diversity is bad of course, but I'm stressing diversity of thought, which different disciplines definitely do come under
    But that being said, I won't hire an aeronautics expert to design a nuclear power plant
    Not all diversity of thought is useful in every scenario, because most thoughts simply aren't useful for everything, and some thoughts are useless in the general case
    I'm doing a bachelor's atm, I'm an undergrad, but yeah, my field of study is itself a mishmash of different academic disciplines
    are you saying sex, ethnicity, religion, orientation, etc. wouldn't apply to diversity of thought?
    Have you ever heard the tragedy of Darth Jar Jar the wise?

  29. ISO #79

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    Yes, I am, now that you mention it. At least not in the way that I think it's been described in this thread. Obviously a gay or bi person as you put it would be more likely to understand another gay or bi person and that perspective might prove useful in understanding a gay person or relationship in much the same way a straight person would likely understand a straight relationship better than a gay person would (even though I'm pretty sure most things from one orientation would carry over; are universal).

    I've had friends from many different backgrounds and literally not once have I observed any benefit from their different backgrounds except maybe in the way they handle ppl and their attitudes, but that's about it. The only thing that I can think of is that I have a Korean friend who uh... yeah that dude pulls off some shit I would never ever do in my life. For example... uh... when he was in high school he was given a project in the second year of high school that was due towards the end of the fourth year. He didn't start working on it until the last week (no I'm not exagerrating, lmao) and he somehow managed to hand it in and get an eight. He said he slept 8 hours that week in total lol.

    Aside from that, I've noticed some differences but they were all from prior education. For example me and my Korean friend were partnered up for something that involved both math and programming. The course was unbelievably shitty so the assignment was really poorly written and hard to understand (e.g. they had some equations describing something and they weren't even consistently using the same symbols for everything... lol). He did the math, and I did the programming. Now that I think about it that was one of the most horrible courses I've ever been through (coincidentally). The professor gave literally no fucks lol

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  32. ISO #82

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    Quote Originally Posted by oops_ur_dead View Post
    Why do you keep comparing a group of friends to a workplace...
    At least he’s consistent in that his personal experiences always trump any other source he sees. In a world filled with misinformation, can you really blame him for that?
    Have you ever heard the tragedy of Darth Jar Jar the wise?

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  34. ISO #84

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    Quote Originally Posted by oops_ur_dead View Post
    They took a pretty cool approach in that paper to establish a causal relationship. First they found out that senior partners at VC firms having more daughters is correlated to them hiring more female employees. Clearly there, the relationship must be causal; there's no way that a partner hiring female employees will cause them to have more daughters, hence we can conclude that senior partners having more daughters leads them to hire more female employees. Then, they found a significant correlation between the number of daughters that senior partners at VC firms have and the firm's performance, which is clearly a one-way causal relationship. Pretty cool stuff.

    The criticism could be raised, though, that having daughters somehow influences a partner's investment habits for the better. It isn't clear how, if at all, they corrected for that. Even if that is the case, it still kinda points to diversity being a good thing if having daughters turns someone into a better investor.
    Dude that's so fcking clever holy crap. The correlation causation thing was bothering me too. Mckinsey acknowledged it at the end of their article but didn't really give a satisfying rebuttal. A company with more diverse hiring may simply be more inclined to innovative / profitable thinking in general. I haven't given it a proper read, but that's such a clever way of circumventing that issue. The daughters man... crazy shit.
    Last edited by yzb25; February 1st, 2021 at 05:46 PM.
    Quote Originally Posted by Blinkstorteddd02 View Post
    naz, he's claiming to have been at your house last night and infected you. I know u were drunk but PLEASE try as hard as you can to remember... That burning you felt the next morning when you went pee was from me, not him.

  35. ISO #85

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    Quote Originally Posted by yzb25 View Post
    Dude that's so fcking clever holy crap. The correlation causation thing was bothering me too. Mckinsey acknowledged it at the end of their article but didn't really give a satisfying rebuttal. A company with more diverse hiring may simply be more inclined to innovative / profitable thinking in general. I haven't given it a proper read, but that's such a clever way of circumventing that issue. The daughters man... crazy shit.
    the ppl who wrote that paper were undoubtedly extremely tall individuals. 6'2 at least probs
    Quote Originally Posted by Blinkstorteddd02 View Post
    naz, he's claiming to have been at your house last night and infected you. I know u were drunk but PLEASE try as hard as you can to remember... That burning you felt the next morning when you went pee was from me, not him.

  36. ISO #86

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    Quote Originally Posted by yzb25 View Post
    Dude that's so fcking clever holy crap. The correlation causation thing was bothering me too. Mckinsey acknowledged it at the end of their article but didn't really give a satisfying rebuttal. A company with more diverse hiring may simply be more inclined to innovative / profitable thinking in general. I haven't given it a proper read, but that's such a clever way of circumventing that issue. The daughters man... crazy shit.
    I thought of that as well as a possible explanation but I don’t think that’s causal, merely coincidental.
    In any event. As it stands I haven’t seen one good reason as to why diversity of ethnicity -> diversity of (useful) opinion. You can’t just make an experiment or observation and jump to conclusions without explaining them. I want to focus on the crux of the argument which is the idea that ethnicity trumps personality, which for the record I think is a disgusting and dangerous idea that can very easily be manipulated by, guess what, the alt-right and the nazis! Which is funny because the people championing diversity definitely do not want to give the alt-right ammo. And I’m not being sarcastic here.

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  38. ISO #88

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    Quote Originally Posted by Oberon View Post
    You can’t just make an experiment or observation and jump to conclusions without explaining them.
    Yes you can. This is the norm in science.

    Or do you think the field of modern pharmaceuticals and medicine is invalid because people don't know why like half of all drugs work?

  39. ISO #89

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    Quote Originally Posted by Oberon View Post
    I thought of that as well as a possible explanation but I don’t think that’s causal, merely coincidental.
    In any event. As it stands I haven’t seen one good reason as to why diversity of ethnicity -> diversity of (useful) opinion. You can’t just make an experiment or observation and jump to conclusions without explaining them. I want to focus on the crux of the argument which is the idea that ethnicity trumps personality, which for the record I think is a disgusting and dangerous idea that can very easily be manipulated by, guess what, the alt-right and the nazis! Which is funny because the people championing diversity definitely do not want to give the alt-right ammo. And I’m not being sarcastic here.
    I'm not sure what you mean. Are you dismissing the correlation found in that particular study as a coincidence? How do you determine which studies to believe then? We have several studies here that find a correlation, then we have one whose correlation can only plausibly be a causation. Is the natural conclusion for you that in all the former studies the correlation is caused by something else, and that the latter study's correlation is just a fluke? Or are you suggesting all the correlations are flukes?

    Also, calm the fuck down. You're spamming us about "burden of proof", "burden of proof" while presenting your extremely subjective anecdotal experiences at university as something that warrants a reply. What the hell are we supposed to make of that? You're even suggesting people's views here are implicitly aiding neo-nazis and shit. Aamirus was barely even being passive aggressive. How the hell else are we supposed to reply to what you're doing? Also:

    Quote Originally Posted by Oberon
    You can’t just make an experiment or observation and jump to conclusions without explaining them.
    bruh

    You need to cap your posts to twice every 24 hours or something. You really go off the rails when you let yourself post too much.
    Quote Originally Posted by Blinkstorteddd02 View Post
    naz, he's claiming to have been at your house last night and infected you. I know u were drunk but PLEASE try as hard as you can to remember... That burning you felt the next morning when you went pee was from me, not him.

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  41. ISO #91

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    I'm not being passive aggressive. I'm clearly not suggesting anyone is a neo-nazi or anything or the sort and made that explicitly clear. What I'm saying is that invariably there is a line of thought that logically follows from the idea of ethnicity > personality that nazis would absolutely LOVE. Which obviously nobody likes so I'm suggesting the idea is not only bad but dangerous.

  42. ISO #92

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    Well maybe 'coincidental' was the wrong term to use there. It would be the case that people who care about diversity have a different mindset and irrespective of whether a company was diverse or not if people who 'wanted' diversity were in charge it could raise profits. It would not be a causal relationsip but they would related in some manner. Does this make sense?

  43. ISO #93

    Re: Best man for the job

    Dude, everyone here understands your argument, the problem is that it's not supported by any evidence and any research points to the exact opposite. And you refuse to acknowledge that, instead talking about your friend group as if an single anecdotal datapoint of a tangentially related case somehow proves your point.

    Literally everyone knows that correlation does not equal causation. But you've also been provided with multiple studies showing a causal relationship and mechanisms through which diversity improves decision making, that you've uniformly ignored, or nitpicked a handful of sentences that have objectionable wording and dismissed the entire case based on that.

    I don't think you'll ever change your mind no matter what evidence anyone shows you, because you've already formed your opinion. You should ask yourself if that's what a rational person should do.

  44. ISO #94

    Re: Best man for the job

    I have a pretty shallow level of education in Statistics but one of the things that research study's depend on is 'Statistical significance' which is a quantified measurement strongly suggesting the results are not by chance. Coloration and Causation have an interesting relationship in that causation is assumed at risk of confounding variables existing in correlated data.
    Regardless it doesn't really matter. To the point 'higher diversity = a statistically significant measurement of higher profits' could just be correlated, with the causation being 'different cultural backgrounds and educations,' but it still draws out the point that its profitable to diversify regardless of the semantics you place on the measurement because the data has enough replication and is statistically significant.
    This sort of thing is the basis for research study's and anyone with a doctoral degree would be professionally discredited if they contrived their study's (which does happen, Just look up that PHD marine biologist who pushed mermaids were real.) To identify that sort of thing you would have to follow academic journals which can be difficult to access or simply look at multiple independent study's done by different teams drawing the same sorts of conclusions such as Oops has done. Then to discredit the study you gotta go full blown tin-foil hat lizard overlords level or just accept their conclusions are appropriately founded in data.

    But TLDR, From what I see the points made in those studys are totally valid and pointing to semantics does not invalidate the statistical significance.

  45. ISO #95

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    Quote Originally Posted by Helz View Post
    I have a pretty shallow level of education in Statistics but one of the things that research study's depend on is 'Statistical significance' which is a quantified measurement strongly suggesting the results are not by chance.
    I basically work in statistics (not really but it's a big part of my job) and this isn't really accurate, though not bad for a layman's understanding of the subject.

    Statistical significance is more of a continuum, where the "significance" of a test (often reported as p-value) is the probability of seeing results at least as extreme as what you observed under the assumption that the null hypothesis (defined as the default assumption, that your difference between groups or means or whatever you're measuring is zero) is true.

    There's a bunch of reasons why this could be on a continuum. One of the big ones is within-group variance, if you're comparing IQ between two schools for example, your certainty changes depending on how much variation there is in IQ among each group, because any difference you detect becomes less or more certain based on the overall natural variance in IQ. Another source of error is from uneven splits that come up by chance, this comes up frequently in experimental setup. Say you have a group of kids that you split into two groups to test if some experiment you perform impacts their IQ. There's a possibility that when you do the random split at the beginning, the high IQ kids will happen to be in one group while the low IQ kids happen to be in the other. This is especially apparent with small sample sizes.

    So you'll never say that something is "significant" to mean the results are not by chance. You'll say something has a significance level of 95%, which means that there's a less than 5% chance of observing results at least as large as your result if there truly is no difference between groups for the metric you're testing. What you define as significant enough to be notable is completely arbitrary, in academia it's usually defined as 95% simply by convention, in industry it can be lower (if you're optimizing a metric with tests to a confidence of 80%, sure you're wrong 20% of the time, but that's still pretty great in terms of the bottom line).

    Sorry for geeking out, I hope you appreciate the lecture though.
    Last edited by oops_ur_dead; February 2nd, 2021 at 10:56 AM.

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    This also might help with understanding what the p value is -

    As oops said, we are interested in the probability you happened to get your data if there isn't a correlation. The hope is that this will be such a low number that not accepting a correlation means believing you happened to get very extreme data. the p-value is effectively how extreme we demand the data needs to be. p-value=0.01 means "we needed a less than 1% chance of getting data this extreme to believe in a correlation."

    Intuitively, if you are a hopeless researcher and come up with 100 incorrect correlation conjectures, you expect a p value of 0.05 to dismiss approximately 95 of these conjectures when you go collect data. A lower p value will dismiss even more. Even if only 20% of your conjectures are true, most of the research you publish will still be true. (Imagine coming up with 125 conjectures, 20% of which (25) are true. Assume you find a correlation for the 25 correct ones. So you publish 30 results, only 5 of which are wrong. Only 20% of your conjectures are true, yet 83% of your published results are true).

    The reason they use such a roundabout method is because it's rather difficult (impossible even) to directly find "the probability a correlation exists". On the other hand, it's normally quite easy to calculate the probability of getting a particular set of data if there is simply no correlation. So we settle for this somewhat vaguer indication of the plausibility of no correlation

    If this is wrong feel free to shut me up. I only did a few modules in statistics myself. I partially wrote this as a way of revising LOL
    Last edited by yzb25; February 2nd, 2021 at 01:16 PM.
    Quote Originally Posted by Blinkstorteddd02 View Post
    naz, he's claiming to have been at your house last night and infected you. I know u were drunk but PLEASE try as hard as you can to remember... That burning you felt the next morning when you went pee was from me, not him.

  47. ISO #97

    Re: Best man for the job

    A p value is the number of random samples that would generate the result if the hypothesis is wrong. Basically say you have a massive bag of 1 million balls of different colors, shapes and sizes. If you wanted to prove that the balls have an average weight lower than say 10 grams, and you picked 1,000 balls at random, the p-value would basically be the proportion of randomly picked groups of 1,000 balls out of all the possible groups you could get, that would ‘prove’ your theory IF your theory was wrong.

  48. ISO #98

    Re: Best man for the job

    Quote Originally Posted by yzb25 View Post
    Intuitively, if you are a hopeless researcher and come up with 100 incorrect correlation conjectures, you expect a p value of 0.05 to dismiss approximately 95 of these conjectures when you go collect data. A lower p value will dismiss even more. Even if only 20% of your conjectures are true, most of the research you publish will still be true. (Imagine coming up with 125 conjectures, 20% of which (25) are true. Assume you find a correlation for the 25 correct ones. So you publish 30 results, only 5 of which are wrong. Only 20% of your conjectures are true, yet 83% of your published results are true).
    This is a bit of a nitpick (or maybe just going further into detail) but quite important: the assumption that you'll find a correlation for the 25 correct ones is a very strong assumption, and in many real world scenarios it isn't as clean. In practice, the p-value you choose as the cutoff also affects statistical power, which is kinda the opposite concept: the probability that, given there actually is an effect, that you'll detect it.

    That's why the cutoff for significance is set to 95% and not 100%; because if it was set to 100%, then you'd throw out a lot of good results (in fact you'd throw out every single result because a p-value of 0 is impossible to obtain in real experimental setups). At some point it was arbitrarily chosen by some scientists that if 1 in 20 results were entirely due to statistical chance, that's a fine compromise, hence why 95% is commonly used.

    In companies they'll often use a lower value such as 80% because when the goal is experimenting for maximizing profit, it's okay if you have a lot of "false positives" as long as overall you still have more wins than losses, and a lower criteria for seeing if an experiment was successful allows you to innovate and push out changes more quickly.

  49. ISO #99

    Re: Best man for the job

    Quote Originally Posted by yzb25 View Post
    This also might help with understanding what the p value is -

    As oops said, we are interested in the probability you happened to get your data if there isn't a correlation. The hope is that this will be such a low number that not accepting a correlation means believing you happened to get very extreme data. the p-value is effectively how extreme we demand the data needs to be. p-value=0.01 means "we needed a less than 1% chance of getting data this extreme to believe in a correlation."

    Intuitively, if you are a hopeless researcher and come up with 100 incorrect correlation conjectures, you expect a p value of 0.05 to dismiss approximately 95 of these conjectures when you go collect data. A lower p value will dismiss even more. Even if only 20% of your conjectures are true, most of the research you publish will still be true. (Imagine coming up with 125 conjectures, 20% of which (25) are true. Assume you find a correlation for the 25 correct ones. So you publish 30 results, only 5 of which are wrong. Only 20% of your conjectures are true, yet 83% of your published results are true).

    The reason they use such a roundabout method is because it's rather difficult (impossible even) to directly find "the probability a correlation exists". On the other hand, it's normally quite easy to calculate the probability of getting a particular set of data if there is simply no correlation. So we settle for this somewhat vaguer indication of the plausibility of no correlation

    If this is wrong feel free to shut me up. I only did a few modules in statistics myself. I partially wrote this as a way of revising LOL
    I wouldn’t correct anything you said because my statistics is pretty rusty but I think the Bayesian method deals with the actual probability of your theory being correct, rather than the weird p-value?

  50. ISO #100

    Re: Best man for the job

    I thought again about what I said about cultures, and I realized I was totally wrong. I confused culture and ethnicity. Ethnicities are equal, cultures are not (to take a non-controversial example, I'll just take Spartans with their kids; people back then may have been pretty rough, but the Spartan culture was definetly more "hardcore" here. People in Mauritania forcing their daughters to become super fat "to be beautiful" is another example of what I'd call "inferior culture").

    That being said...
    Quote Originally Posted by Oberon View Post
    If an individual’s culture doesn’t have that great of an effect on their own capabilities to begin with, how could it possibly have an effect on a group’s performance? People are dumber when working together, not smarter. I’ve been in multicultural teams before and I can tell you what you’re saying is simply not true lol. I’ve never noticed culture influencing success in any significant way. The only thing I’ve noticed is that ppl from Eastern bloc countries, India and Korea tend to score much better in mathematical tests than ppl educated in the West, and people educated in the West tend to write much better essays. There. That’s literally it.
    Not to be mean, but your personal experience is completely insignificant because of the sample's size. The studies Oops linked are much more pertaining to the topic. Plus, while a team of students may not always be amazing lol, a team at the head of a company likely is, because everyone there wants the same thing and wants it hard: profit. You can't really have someone letting others do all the work, like what happens in a student group, for example.


    Also, you guys post way too much lol, this is longer to read and analyze than an FM game
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