I have worked in this industry - on and off - for 3 decades. This is an ugly phenomenon nobody wants to acknowledge.
The mere suggestion that this is a funnel issue, rather than a racial bias issue, is met with vehement accusations of racism (if coming from an older man like me, even more so).
I’d even go as far as to say SV has a real discrimination problem - and that is ageism. When supply and demand is considered, it is many times as blatant as the supposed race issue.
Finally, I did use the term virtue signalling. It is fairly unambiguous. There are no political leanings to extrapolate from there, yet the subtle accusations put forward based on that is abundantly clear here. Once again - before dissecting my comment and projecting an image of me to attack/downvote, ask yourself if the way SV (likely your employer based on HN demographics)and outlets like NYT frame these issues is truly honest.
https://www.heritage.org/courts/commentary/how-affirmative-a... (Relating to drop out rates)
https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-sad-...
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3699572?seq=1
https://hilo.hawaii.edu/campuscenter/hohonu/volumes/document...
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/10/the-pai...
I have worked in this industry - on and off - for 3 decades. This is an ugly phenomenon nobody wants to acknowledge.
The mere suggestion that this is a funnel issue, rather than a racial bias issue, is met with vehement accusations of racism (if coming from an older man like me, even more so).
I’d even go as far as to say SV has a real discrimination problem - and that is ageism. When supply and demand is considered, it is many times as blatant as the supposed race issue.
Finally, I did use the term virtue signalling. It is fairly unambiguous. There are no political leanings to extrapolate from there, yet the subtle accusations put forward based on that is abundantly clear here. Once again - before dissecting my comment and projecting an image of me to attack/downvote, ask yourself if the way SV (likely your employer based on HN demographics)and outlets like NYT frame these issues is truly honest.