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Only 20% of graduates in engineering are women.

Yeah, I wonder why that is. Could it be that getting hired and promoted is much harder so a lot of women don’t bother? I wonder how you could fix that…

They’re picking from a smaller pool

Yes, good thing they’re IBM and can can pick the highly qualified women from that smaller pool.

I’m supposed to think they won’t be underqualified?

You’re clearly a heavily biased individual, so who knows what you’re going to believe.

When I look for an attorney, I’m not just looking for someone who passed the bar

Let’s be real, when you’re looking for an attorney, the most important thing for you is how much they charge.

She’s not a terrible judge, necessarily, but not great either.

Oh really, care to provide any evidence of that? I assume you’re an extremely qualified lawyer? Maybe a professor of law?

Justice Thomas proves that merely sharing someone’s race does not represent that constituents of that race.

If you want to talk about someone who is incredibly unqualified, he’s your guy.

I don’t think Biden already knew qualified judges that were black women for SCOTUS

You don’t think a man who was a senator for 22 years and voted on the confirmation of 11 Supreme Court justices, and who served as the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee for 8 years where he personally led the confirmation hearings of 7 of them was aware that there was a pool of qualified black women who would make good Supreme Court justices? Maybe you better think about that a little harder…

Trump did the same when he picked a woman strictly because he was replacing another woman.

If you want to argue that Trump had no idea what he was doing, I’m not going to dispute that.

Only anecdotal.

So no.

I suspect tech companies really avoid hiring underqualified people

Well there you go. There’s no problem, and no reason to get mad at DEI.

The lawsuit could be related to that public “policy”.

Ah yes, the lawsuit. What happened in that lawsuit?

I work in tech

No, no, no. You’re a professor of law, remember? You have strong opinions on the qualifications of Ketanji Brown Jackson. You couldn’t just be some shlub who is watching Newsmax and parroting their opinion. C’mon professor, I’m not going to believe you’re just a guy who works in tech.

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Yeah, I wonder why that is. Could it be that getting hired and promoted is much harder so a lot of women don’t bother? I wonder how you could fix that…

Around 58% of college students are women. Of black grad students, the vast majority of degrees go to women, 71.5% of masters and 65.9% of doctoral/medical. Tech companies are starved for female representation. And you think it’s somehow harder for women to make it?

I’m curious why you think men are under represented in college then. I’m sure it’s conveniently not because they think they’ll have a hard time succeeding and “don’t bother.”

I’m supposed to think they won’t be underqualified?

You’re clearly a heavily biased individual, so who knows what you’re going to believe.

In what way am I biased? Use statistical probability and logic to answer the question, that’s all I’m doing. If I narrow my pool to a smaller subset, then are my chances of getting the most qualified people diminishes. Right?

Yes, good thing they’re IBM and can can pick the highly qualified women from that smaller pool.

You certainly see the problem with this. They’re not the only ones doing it, and even if they weren’t, they’re still passing up more qualified people, assuming parity in the rates of qualified people in the 20/80% distribution.

Let’s be real, when you’re looking for an attorney, the most important thing for you is how much they charge.

Wrong. Out of the three I’ve gotten, I look for their specialization to the task I want first. Notice how you completely evaded the question?

Justice Thomas proves that merely sharing someone’s race does not represent that constituents of that race.

If you want to talk about someone who is incredibly unqualified, he’s your guy.

Oh really, care to provide any evidence of that? I assume you’re an extremely qualified lawyer? Maybe a professor of law? (see how dumb these questions are?)

Only anecdotal.

So no.

Personal testimony is admissible evidence in court, so it’s not nothing. Just not useful evidence for this discussion.

Ah yes, the lawsuit. What happened in that lawsuit?

The lawsuit was stayed pending binding arbitration proceedings, meaning they settled privately out of court.

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