{"id":13121,"date":"2013-02-11T03:00:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=13121"},"modified":"2013-02-11T03:00:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T08:00:10","slug":"its-all-in-the-way-you-spin-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13121","title":{"rendered":"It&#039;s All in the Way You Spin It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/firstround.com\/article\/How-Etsy-Grew-their-Number-of-Female-Engineers-by-500-in-One-Year\">How Etsy Grew their Number of Female Engineers by Almost 500% in One Year<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s great the Etsy found a new way to think about things and realized that the old ways were depriving them of quality people.  I hope that others adopt newer ways of thinking as well. (I&#8217;m looking at you, my physics brethren, and by the numbers, physicists are more than likely brethren.)<\/p>\n<p>But way down in the story (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6800\">not quite paragraph 19<\/a>, but it&#8217;s close)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At the time of the talk, Etsy\u2019s had twenty women on its 110-person engineering team, which is a roughly eighteen percent (or a four and half times) increase from the previous year. It\u2019s not quite hockey stick growth, but it\u2019s a huge step forward.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>18%\/4.5 is 4%, and since we need a whole number, my guess is that there were 3 women out of ~75 the previous year (I assume they were expanding), unless they fired a bunch of engineers as well as hiring new ones, and had 4 out of ~100. The fantastic growth trumpeted by the headline obscures the reality that their starting numbers were craptacularly low and have been improved to merely poor.      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Etsy Grew their Number of Female Engineers by Almost 500% in One Year I think it&#8217;s great the Etsy found a new way to think about things and realized that the old ways were depriving them of quality people. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13121\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}