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[Classic] Contra Grant On Exaggerated Differences

Astral Codex Ten Podcast

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How Many Women Were Accepted to Their CS Program Just for Being Women?

Harvey Mudd was 42% women in 2011, 47% in 2013, and 46% in 2016. Hardly enough to account for a spike in female computer science majors from 40% in 2013 to 55% in 2016,. Also, MIT accepts women at twice the rate of men but last fall, less than 40% of their undergraduates computer science students were women.

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