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> The EEOC doesn't care about age

"The EEO-1 doesn't include age" is a readily verifiable fact.

"The EEOC doesn't care about age", OTOH, is claim which requires some argument beyond merely the observation that EEO-1 doesn't include age. [1]

[1] See, e.g., http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/litigation/selected/adea.cfm [2]

[2] which, I suppose, is also good evidence for the claim that "the EEOC doesn't care about keeping its website listing current cases particularly current", but that's a different issue.




>is a readily verifiable fact

Yeah, but people can also read behind the lines. We're good at pattern matching and we have a lot of experience in corporate bs.


> Yeah, but people can also read behind the lines.

Or, IOW, can insert their own bias into their interpretations without supporting evidence.


Or, IOW, can make assesments based on what they know, without necessarily having some kind of forensic level or mathematical level proof.

Which is an essential skill in real life (even in court actually). Seems like a lot of people, especially programmers, conflate real life discussions with theorem proving.




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