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> However, I find these distractions are much stronger correlated with a person's economic situation rather than race or gender.

Which changes nothing when its a 99% correlation by race and gender.

Its not a dissertation, its acknowledging that something has the result of marginalizes groups disproportionately. Disproportionately means that it doesn't affect everyone, it doesn't 'affect all women and all minorities. It means disproportionately affects, due to their disproportionate representation in these distracting economic circumstances, so lets do something else instead since the reasons why it affects them isn't going to change in our lifetime.

> Also, I agree with the parent of your comment where the time spent with leetcode is a small fraction of the time needed to learn CS fundamentals

If people got formal education they took the risk for that allotted time. It doesn't matter if a time-discriminatory process takes less time, its an additional and unnecessary risk for the candidate.

If people didn't get formal education then they didn't take the risk for the allotted time, they just have exposure to the tasks the company needs. That alone suggests more inspiration is needed to have a different way of determining their compentency.



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