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Curt Rice
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Curt Rice's personal blog at curt-rice.com covers science and politics. Since 2013, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Anecdata, or how McKinsey’s story became Sheryl Sandberg’s fact”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on voice modulation to mask gender in technical interviews. The one comment discusses orchestra blind auditions and gender balance, not the post's writing.
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Science in Balance
Most-linked posts?
- Anecdata, or how McKinsey’s story became Sheryl Sandberg’s fact2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-12-23
What Hacker News says?
There is evidence to the contrary, where they have run this experiment in the real world. This is for Orchestras. As late as 1970, the top five orchestras in the U.S. had fewer than 5% women. It wasn’t until 1980 that any of these top orchestras had 10% female musicians. But by 1997, they were up to 25% and today some of them are well into the 30s. In the 1970s and 1980s, orchestras began using blind auditions. Cand…
Comment linking /2013/10/01/what-the-worlds-best-orchestras-can-teach-us-about-gender-discrimination/
on “We built voice modulation to mask gender in technical interviews”Submitted 2 ways quotas for women raise quality as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 5B reasons for open access as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Anecdata, or how McKinsey’s story became Sheryl Sandberg’s fact as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Anecdata, or how McKinsey’s story became Sheryl Sandberg’s fact as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why you can’t trust research: 3 problems with the quality of science as a story · 1 points
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