RE: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

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A statistician? This entire thread is basically arguing that the IETF needs a human resources department.

Lloyd Wood
http://sat-net.com/L.Wood/


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From: ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx [ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brian E Carpenter [brian.e.carpenter@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 18 April 2013 16:43
To: Pete Resnick
Cc: ietf@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

On 18/04/2013 16:28, Pete Resnick wrote:
...
> That's a factor of between 4 and 7 difference between an "eyeball" guess
> and a rough calculation. I think that's likely an unintentional sampling
> bias of your (and many other folks) eyeballs. And I think it's because
> we have a tendency to subconsciously discount the numbers of people who
> do not appear in leadership, or even simply don't behave "the way the
> rest of us do".
>
> This isn't to say that we should spend all of our time on this question
> by collecting statistics; that's just navel gazing. But we do want to
> understand the nature of the problem and not let our guesses and
> subconscious biases get in the way.

Indeed. Ideally, though, we need a statistician to look at the
historical ratios (e.g. M/F ratios) in the attendee lists vs the
I* membership, to see whether there is a statistically significant
bias in the selection process over the years.

   Brian





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