Recent comments in /f/dataisbeautiful

Exatex t1_je3xzj5 wrote

answered to the question somewhere else what the rest is.

You can only combat bias in a proper way by trying being aware of it. That being said, we are working close together and especially in smaller companies, all team members tend to have one trait/character/interest that unites them, which is ok and important for a culture. If you are aware of biases, it is also okay to have a subjective opinion about someone and also let that be a factor that counts in the decision, again, as long as you are aware of your own biases. I think we are a pretty colorful bunch as a result, maybe sometimes even a bit much. For most startups, it is rather good if at the very beginning, the first founders and hires are very alike. That forms the culture in which you can start being more diverse.

I read a loooot of (meta) research about team diversity as there is lots of contradicting studies. It’s important to focus rather on a task related team composition rather than individual attributes.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sujin-Horwitz/publication/228389271_The_Effects_of_Team_Diversity_on_Team_Outcomes_A_Meta-Analytic_Review_of_Team_Demography/links/58ee90a9aca2724f0a28af4f/The-Effects-of-Team-Diversity-on-Team-Outcomes-A-Meta-Analytic-Review-of-Team-Demography.pdf

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FlippantBuoyancy OP t1_je3x2j4 wrote

Big Brother Canada is a reality show wherein 16 contestents inhabit a house that is isolated from the outside world. Up through season 10, viewers could continously monitor the contestents via so-called "live feeds". However, the producers decided to remove the live feeds for the current season. The live feeds were replaced with daily curated content known as "digital dailies".

The plot above shows r/bigbrother subreddit engagement in terms of total posts per day. The first three weeks of the previous season (BBCAN10) are compared to the current season (BBCAN11). The four threads that correspond to live feeds (morning feeds, afternoon feeds, evening feeds, and LNC feeds) no longer exist in the current season (BBCAN11). They have been replaced by a single daily subreddit thread: digital dailies. Both seasons share three threads related to episodic content: the episode thread, the spoiler thread, and the post episode thread.

The plot was constructed in OriginPro. Data was pulled using the {social}^grep API.

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Tilapiatitty t1_je3pjv0 wrote

I think extinction is a lil bit of an exaggeration. The population growth rate is declining, but the population is still growing. There is overpopulation, and by the time we reach 2050, food and other resources such as wood will be scarcer.

I think it’s a great thing women tend to have babies less. This means a better planet, happier babies and happier parents. Win, win, win.

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orchidloom t1_je3mvis wrote

Holy cow that's a lot of misinformation. No, weed does not give you schizophrenia symptoms. No, people are not putting fentanyl into weed. Are edible THC products too strong? Sure, I'll give you that. Most people without a tolerance do not need the high amount of THC in edibles, especially considering most people want to eat more than one bite of something.

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cnjak t1_je37wfv wrote

Reply to comment by H_Lunulata in Timeline of the Far Future by cj15pas

The orbit hasn't changed (except through a different Milankovich cycle that I believe takes 112,000 years or something like that). What you may be thinking of its that Earth's orbital eccentricity changes on this ~100,000 year timescale.

When it comes to precession, what is happening is that the Earth's rotation axis is spinning around in space pointing in different directions on a 26,000 year cycle. This drift of Earth's spin axis is not related to its orbit.

Right now, the Northern Hemisphere (NH) spin axis is oriented toward the Sun in June. This means on the June Solstice the spin axis is most directed toward the Sun from the point of view of the NH. This is why the NH experiences summer in June.

Over the next 13,000 years, Earth's rotational axis will revolve (precess) to the other direction in space, and be oriented about 23.5 degrees in the other direction in June. This means that when Earth orbits to the December position, then the axis will orient the NH toward the Sun. So the date on the calendar of the seasons will be effectively flipped. That's it. There's nothing about the orbit that changes from precession. The seasons will drift through the calendric dates of the calendar though.

Finally, since the Earth's orbit is eccentric, and the Earth is physically closer to the Sun by 3% in January, this means that if December in 13000 years is Summer for the NH, then the NH will also get 3% more sunlight in summer.

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Critical-Network-247 t1_je2np3h wrote

The fucked up thing is that blatant bias & discrimination is so common in interviews that aren't done "blindly". And it impacts women of course eg https://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/aug/12/managers-avoid-hiring-younger-women-maternity-leave.

Some recruiters are young people who don't have a lot of maturity or life experience. Being so immature I don't find it surprising they come up with idiotic reasons to reject someone, especially since many jobs have hundreds of candidates or so.

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SlowbroLife t1_je2n736 wrote

I'm also a PM working for a very well-known company.

I deal with consumer electronics so it's probably different but I only had to go through 2 interviews.

Is it normal for tech PMs to have that many interviews or is Google special? Since there is no shortage of interest working for Google, I assume they can get away with such rigorous interview process.

Honestly, if I had to do 9 rounds of interviews, I wouldn't even go for it.

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