Journalists Fall for ‘Completely Fake’ Stats
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Posted On: 02/18/2019 5:57:25 PM
Journalists Fall for ‘Completely Fake’
Stats About Sexism in Tech < >
Journalists from the New York Times, Washington Post, and Bloomberg promoted a “completely fake” statistic “that doesn’t seem to exist” about sexism in technology this week.
Last week, the New York Times published an article claiming, “In a 2016 experiment conducted by the tech recruiting firm Speak With a Geek, 5,000 résumés with identical information were submitted to firms. When identifying details were removed from the résumés, 54 percent of the women received interview offers; when gendered names and other biographical information were given, only 5 percent of them did.”
The validity of these statistics which subsequently went viral on social media, however, were called into question by Vox staff writer Kelsey Piper.
Stats About Sexism in Tech < >
Journalists from the New York Times, Washington Post, and Bloomberg promoted a “completely fake” statistic “that doesn’t seem to exist” about sexism in technology this week.
Last week, the New York Times published an article claiming, “In a 2016 experiment conducted by the tech recruiting firm Speak With a Geek, 5,000 résumés with identical information were submitted to firms. When identifying details were removed from the résumés, 54 percent of the women received interview offers; when gendered names and other biographical information were given, only 5 percent of them did.”
The validity of these statistics which subsequently went viral on social media, however, were called into question by Vox staff writer Kelsey Piper.
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