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jsmp is a personal blog at jsmp.dk about economics and science. Since 2019, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Blind auditions and gender discrimination”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link jsmp's posts as sources that test famous claims against data, mainly the 2019 blind orchestra audition study and Taleb's IQ claims. None of the comments judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Blind auditions and gender discrimination4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-10-22
What Hacker News says?
Re-read the original link, posted again below. The claims you're making are specifically addressed and are wrong. There are multiple critical reviews of this paper. It is well-known to be largely nonsense. http://www.jsmp.dk/posts/2019-05-12-blindauditions/blindaudi...
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on “The FAA’s Hiring Scandal”Submitted Taleb is wrong about IQ as a story · 150 points
HN discussionNot really. Everything is downstream of the pressure on organizations to address disparate impact. Some examples: When a company is under pressure to boost the number of X engineers, they quickly run into the 'pipeline problem'. There simply isn't enough X engineers on the market. So they address that by creating scholarship funds exclusively for race X. When a school is under pressure to have the racial makeup of i…
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on “The FAA’s Hiring Scandal”Submitted Taleb is wrong about IQ (2019) as a story · 136 points
HN discussion> Many orchestras switched to blind auditions, and it drastically increased the number of female musicians. > https://gap.hks.harvard.edu/orchestrating-impartiality-impac ... That study made a big splash with a lot of claims that were unconnected to the data. https://jsmp.dk/posts/2019-05-12-blindauditions/ The number of female musicians in orchestras increased, but we can't actually attribute that to the audition p…
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on “Getting hired after fifty”Submitted Blind auditions and gender discrimination as a story · 88 points
HN discussionThe "blind orchestra auditions" story gets repeated a lot, but the study it originates from did not find any statistically significant effect (and even so the ultimate outcome was that men benefit from blind auditions, not women). http://jsmp.dk/posts/2019-05-12-blindauditions/
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on “Claims AI can boost workplace diversity are ‘spurious and dangerous’”Submitted Taleb is wrong about IQ as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOk, so Taleb's argument was: > “IQ” is a stale test meant to measure mental capacity but in fact mostly measures extreme unintelligence (learning difficulties), as well as, to a lesser extent (with a lot of noise), a form of intelligence, stripped of 2nd order effects Right before the conclusion, the author shows us this chart comparing incomes in IQ cohorts: https://www.jsmp.dk/posts/2019-06-16-talebiq/iq_files/fig…
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on “Taleb is wrong about IQ (2019)”The blind auditions may be a bad example - or at least, may not have helped get more women hired into orchestras. The original study that posited that blind auditions greatly help women does not show strong data to support its claims and what data it does show either contradicts the claim (when confounded) or has no significant result and large error values (when unconfounded). See https://jsmp.dk/posts/2019-05-12-b…
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on “The Psychology of not wanting to know (2017) [pdf]”Taleb is wrong though on IQ: https://jsmp.dk/posts/2019-06-16-talebiq/ > Most of the document is just a rant, but he does make some quantitative claims, which is good. I investigate the veracity of these claims using real data. > All the claims from the article that I looked at, that can be interpreted as something specific and tested in a real data set, turned out not to be correct. If Taleb hadn’t blocked everyone…
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on “A New Aristocracy: Yale Law School Commencement Address (2015) [pdf]”Predictable in what way? Last year there was some discussion about the correctness of the usual take-away of the original blind-audition study: https://jsmp.dk/posts/2019-05-12-blindauditions/
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on “Academy establishes inclusion standards for Oscars eligibility”
