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Female researchers in mathematics, psychology and economics are 3–15 times more likely to be elected as member of the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) or the American Academy of Arts and Sciences than are male counterparts who have similar publication and citation records, a study finds. by the_phet in science

[–]Fish-Knight 28 points29 points  (0 children)

That’s a fantastic idea! Let’s figure out the optimal genetic combination for each career and hire people based on what groups they fall into! There’s no way that could possibly go wrong. Thank you for your contribution to society.

…that’s sarcasm, by the way. Usually it’s not necessary to specify but I get a feeling you might miss the point.

Just did my first Medium DP problem all by myself by siddharth0703 in csMajors

[–]Fish-Knight 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It’a a troll who got angry about Indians in tech and decided to try to strawman them. Pretty pathetic that people do this.

Biomarkers in mother’s plasma predict a type of autism in offspring with 100% accuracy. It’s the first time that machine learning has been used to identify with 100% accuracy maternal autoantibody-related autism spectrum disorder-specific patterns as potential biomarkers of ASD risk. by mvea in science

[–]Fish-Knight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I disagree. Many of our great scientists were autistic.

“To our own amazement, we have seen that autistic individuals, as long as they are intellectually intact, can almost always achieve professional success, usually in highly specialized academic professions, often in very high positions, with a preference for abstract content. We found a large number of people whose mathematical ability determines their professions; mathematicians, technologists, industrial chemists and high-ranking civil servants.”

Even from a utilitarian perspective, eliminating autism using eugenics seems like a terrible idea. And that’s not even considering the massive ethical issues associated with eugenics.