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Comment Re:It's just for show (Score 3, Informative) 69

The other firms being suspended from the program include Capgemini, Cognizant, HCL, Infosys, Tata, and Wipro.

Those are the contractors.

I'm open to other suggestions but I have yet to hear a single one that is both viable and actually works.

I don't really oppose H1b, but arrest one CEO who is hiring people illegally, and this will stop.

Comment Cue the usual crowd (Score 1) 69

If H1B were really about skilled foreigners filling gaps that can't be filled otherwise, their salaries would be high relative to US citizens.

In a free market, your salary is proportional to how hard it is to replace you:

Push buttons like a trained seal? Peanuts.

Know where to place the the thousand dollar chalk mark? Mid six figures easy.

So what do H1Bs at Microsoft make?

If these links
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=h1b+...
are to be believed, kinda average for a software engineer. Maybe even a little low. Boston area under 160k.

Not the stereotypical monkey pushing a button, but not exactly top flight talent either.

Comment Re: Probably due to methodical errors (Score 1) 176

I just looked at the paper and you are right. Thanks for looking.

The male and the female one are basically suggesting visually that the man is competent and the woman is not. I mean even only the cloth pattern of the skirt that "she" is wearing is atrocious. It is like they made the "woman" intentionally unattractive while they made the "man" average. ("She" is also blonde, of course, while "he" has dark hair.) I have no idea whether this was actually done intentionally, but if I were to design a study to find this type of bias, that is what I would use. I wonder whether they did something similar in the text interfaces.

I also noticed that their names are Johanna and Johan, i.e. a proper male name for "him" and a feminized male name for "her".

So, after all, my first take of "likely methodical error" was correct.

Comment Re:you cant be serious. (Score 2) 176

The study is flawed in another way as well because "everybody knows" that women earn less than men. (Usually that is "proven" with the unadjusted wage gap, which is completely bogus and essentially a lie.) Hence the study participants just conformed to what they thought were the facts of the matter. Makes the results completely meaningless.

Comment Re: confirmation bias (Score 2, Insightful) 176

And the other thing is that "everybody knows" there is a gender pay gap. This is only true for the unadjusted gap, but most people do not know what that means. Once you adjust for factors like experience and field-of-work the difference is below the margin of error, i.e. small and we do not even know whether it is real. We essentially have same wages for the same work and qualification and had it for a while. That some parts of some gender groups decide to not do the same work or invest less or more time into getting experience is a separate problem and not a problem of payment.

Hence the people in this "experiment" were just conforming to what they thought was expected of them. That makes the whole thing bogus. Obviously wages in the real world are determined by a different procedure and harping on about women and men not behaving exactly the same (as a group) is just one thing: counterproductive.

Comment Re:mostly mash-ups of existing techniques (Score 1) 106

While they are trained on existing data, they are also capable of reasoning.

No. Or rather not to any meaningful degree or depth. They can do very shallow reasoning only and after a few steps into deeper reasoning chains, only noise is left. Statistical AI is completely unsuitable for automated deduction. It is not even remotely comparable to what a smart human or even the very limited automatic theorem proving systems can do.

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