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Jessica Wade: evaluation

5 Apr 2023 Conversations with Tyler Jessica Wade on Chiral Materials, Open Knowledge, and Representation in STEM

“Yes, it’s a complete one, but I think having them at all is an indictment of those statements because it’s almost like those ridiculous entrance exams that are used to go to medical school here or graduate school in America.”

— Jessica Wade

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Jessica Wade
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5 Apr 2023
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Conversations with Tyler

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…If ChatGPT can just reproduce these DEI statements, isn’t that an indictment of those statements? Yes, it’s a complete one, but I think having them at all is an indictment of those statements because it’s almost like those ridiculous entrance exams that are used to go to medical school here or graduate school in America. If you’re privileged and surrounded by people who help you pass those exams, you get in. If you’re surrounded by people in your institution who can write your EDI statement, then it doesn’t mean that you care remotely about it; it just means you’ve got someone else to write it for you. In the United States, more than half of the graduating majors in the biological sciences are women, so there’s a lot of representation at lower levels. They may or may not go on. The percentage is much lower in a lot of the STEM fields. How much of that difference should we think of as resulting from just preference of the women?…

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