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RE: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-29 12:19:49
What a concept.

Irrespectively Yours,

John


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Melinda Shore
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Subject: Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

On 4/29/13 1:11 AM, Stewart Bryant wrote:
The other thing to remember is that whilst your proportional
estimates
are likely to be correct, in a random process you will get long runs
of "bias" that only average out in the long run.

Right, although if "normal" statistical fluctuation gives us a long
period of woman-free leadership, somewhere in your long run we might
expect the same statistical fluctuation to deliver unto us a stretch in
which women are overrepresented in the leadership.

Melinda





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