Posts tagged #Inclusion and Equity

Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation: An anecdote

Intrinsic motivation is always better than extrinsic motivation. But not as good as it is when one is motivated both intrinsically and extrinsically.

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Asian Is Not a Useful Category

Asking if someone is "Asian" in a question of ethnicity or demographics or pretty much any context is bad. There is no reasonable conclusion you can arrive at about a person based on the fact that they are "Asian".

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Inclusion/Equity and Evaluating Negatives

Evaluating properties like inclusion and equity of products can't be done through exhaustive enumeration of product outcomes. Instead we will need to increasingly rely on the controls that we place how we construct the products.

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On Gender Gap in Adolescent Mental Health

A recent study found that more gender-equal countries have larger gender gaps in mental health. I look at the data that seems to have yielded this counter-intuitive results and find it lacking.

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