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		derefr on July 27, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why is computer science a sausage fest? It's not that they're not equally plausible; it's that they're not equally solvable. We can "fix" sexism (and thus cause the "right" number of women to go into STEM); we can't "fix" Autism-linked chromosomes in people who have already been born.

gwern on July 27, 2010 [–]

Does reality care whether something you have a problem with is solvable?

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