On Saturday, May 7, 2016 at 12:13:59 PM UTC+5:30, Gregory Ewing wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > Who is setting and enforcing this quota, and given that only about 1 in 20 > > Python programmers is a woman, do you think men are seriously missing out > > on any opportunities? > > Suppose there are 100 people wanting to ask questions, and > there is only time to answer 10 questions. If the 1 in 20 > ratio holds, then 5 of those people are women and the other > 95 are men. > > Alternating between men and women means that all of the > women get their questions answered, and only 5/95 of the > men. So in this example, if you're a woman you have a 100% > chance of getting answered, and if you're a man you only > have a 5.26% chance. > > Whether you think this is a good strategy or not, > beliavsky is right that it's not "equal".
Usually I steer away from these (type of) discussions. However... Trump seems to be winning And with that there are these kind of discussions... Here's a short snippet of an exchange I had with an ex-student of mine: --------------------------------- Student: This may be a pretty controversial statement. But if I'd have voting rights in this country I'd have voted for Trump. You are at-least getting what you are seeing. Everyone else is trying to be politically correct where as this guy doesn't give rat's a** about it. My response: Political correctness is incorrect doesn't mean Political incorrectness is correct :-) ------------------------------- On the question of quotas: Any corrective system that seeks to redress an inquity must BY-DESIGN asymptotically self-destruct. Else we have a problem being 'cured' with a remedy-worse-than-the-evil. IOW: A world of A-oppresses-B is not improved by one of B-oppresses-A. As examples of asymptotic self-destruction: 1. Say there is a quota for education for some kind of minority. Should it be the same from kindergarten to MDs in neuro-surgery? If yes would you go to such a quota-MD when the need arises? 2. Likewise say a quota of say X% seats reserved is put in place. Should this X remain untouched for 5? 10? 20? 50? 100? years As for Guido's Q/A practices: I find it good that he does as he does... As long as it does not become a habit!! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
