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  <itunes:subtitle>Yoel and Mickey discuss the pros and cons of the concept of privilege: the unearned, sometimes invisible conditions of a person’s life that give them advantages that others might not have.</itunes:subtitle>
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    <![CDATA[<p>Yoel and Mickey discuss the concept of privilege, the unearned, sometimes invisible conditions of a person’s life that give them advantages that others might not have. What are the benefits of acknowledging one’s privilege and calling it out in others? Are there drawbacks to focusing on the immutable characteristics of a person that might normally proffer advantages? If all our characteristics are unearned, that is products of biology and environment that we have zero control over, should people be praised or blamed for them? But, first, they discuss new internal analyses by Google suggesting it has been overpaying women, not men; they then raise serious concerns about this analysis because it conditioned on a collider, a statistical concept that Yoel and Mickey (to put it generously) struggle to understand.</p>

<p>Bonus: Mickey falls in love with bidets.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Bidet Attachments by TUSHY | For People Who Poop" rel="nofollow" href="https://hellotushy.com/">Bidet Attachments by TUSHY | For People Who Poop</a> &mdash; Ask me about my butthole</li><li><a title="New York Times | Google Finds It&#39;s Underpaying Many Men as It Addresses Wage Equity" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/technology/google-gender-pay-gap.html">New York Times | Google Finds It's Underpaying Many Men as It Addresses Wage Equity</a> &mdash; A survey of employee salaries at Google reaches a surprising conclusion: More men than women were being underpaid</li><li><a title="Julia Rohrer&#39;s Brilliant Blogpost: That one weird third variable problem nobody ever mentions: Conditioning on a collider – The 100% CI" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.the100.ci/2017/03/14/that-one-weird-third-variable-problem-nobody-ever-mentions-conditioning-on-a-collider/">Julia Rohrer's Brilliant Blogpost: That one weird third variable problem nobody ever mentions: Conditioning on a collider – The 100% CI</a> &mdash; Causal inference from observational data boils down to assumptions you have to make and third variables you have to take into account. I’m going to talk about a third variable problem today, conditioning on a collider.</li><li><a title="Thinking Clearly About Correlations and Causation: Graphical Causal Models for Observational Data - Julia M. Rohrer, 2018" rel="nofollow" href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2515245917745629">Thinking Clearly About Correlations and Causation: Graphical Causal Models for Observational Data - Julia M. Rohrer, 2018</a> &mdash; Certain types of third variables—colliders and mediators—should not be controlled for because that can actually move the estimate of an association away from the value of the causal effect of interest.</li><li><a title="BuzzFeed | How Privileged Are you?" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/regajha/how-privileged-are-you">BuzzFeed | How Privileged Are you?</a></li><li><a title="What Is Privilege? - YouTube" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD5f8GuNuGQ">What Is Privilege? - YouTube</a></li><li><a title="Privileged | By Kyle Korver" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/articles/kyle-korver-utah-jazz-nba">Privileged | By Kyle Korver</a> &mdash; What I’m realizing is, no matter how passionately I commit to being an ally, and no matter how unwavering my support is for NBA and WNBA players of color….. I’m still in this conversation from the privileged perspective of opting in to it. </li><li><a title="&#39;The Class Ceiling&#39; Decodes the Cultures of Elite Workplaces - The Atlantic" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/02/class-ceiling-laurison-friedman-elite-jobs/582175/">'The Class Ceiling' Decodes the Cultures of Elite Workplaces - The Atlantic</a> &mdash; When two sociologists interviewed highly paid architects, TV producers, actors, and accountants, they encountered work cultures that favor the already affluent.</li></ul>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>Yoel and Mickey discuss the concept of privilege, the unearned, sometimes invisible conditions of a person’s life that give them advantages that others might not have. What are the benefits of acknowledging one’s privilege and calling it out in others? Are there drawbacks to focusing on the immutable characteristics of a person that might normally proffer advantages? If all our characteristics are unearned, that is products of biology and environment that we have zero control over, should people be praised or blamed for them? But, first, they discuss new internal analyses by Google suggesting it has been overpaying women, not men; they then raise serious concerns about this analysis because it conditioned on a collider, a statistical concept that Yoel and Mickey (to put it generously) struggle to understand.</p>

<p>Bonus: Mickey falls in love with bidets.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Bidet Attachments by TUSHY | For People Who Poop" rel="nofollow" href="https://hellotushy.com/">Bidet Attachments by TUSHY | For People Who Poop</a> &mdash; Ask me about my butthole</li><li><a title="New York Times | Google Finds It&#39;s Underpaying Many Men as It Addresses Wage Equity" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/technology/google-gender-pay-gap.html">New York Times | Google Finds It's Underpaying Many Men as It Addresses Wage Equity</a> &mdash; A survey of employee salaries at Google reaches a surprising conclusion: More men than women were being underpaid</li><li><a title="Julia Rohrer&#39;s Brilliant Blogpost: That one weird third variable problem nobody ever mentions: Conditioning on a collider – The 100% CI" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.the100.ci/2017/03/14/that-one-weird-third-variable-problem-nobody-ever-mentions-conditioning-on-a-collider/">Julia Rohrer's Brilliant Blogpost: That one weird third variable problem nobody ever mentions: Conditioning on a collider – The 100% CI</a> &mdash; Causal inference from observational data boils down to assumptions you have to make and third variables you have to take into account. I’m going to talk about a third variable problem today, conditioning on a collider.</li><li><a title="Thinking Clearly About Correlations and Causation: Graphical Causal Models for Observational Data - Julia M. Rohrer, 2018" rel="nofollow" href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2515245917745629">Thinking Clearly About Correlations and Causation: Graphical Causal Models for Observational Data - Julia M. Rohrer, 2018</a> &mdash; Certain types of third variables—colliders and mediators—should not be controlled for because that can actually move the estimate of an association away from the value of the causal effect of interest.</li><li><a title="BuzzFeed | How Privileged Are you?" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/regajha/how-privileged-are-you">BuzzFeed | How Privileged Are you?</a></li><li><a title="What Is Privilege? - YouTube" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD5f8GuNuGQ">What Is Privilege? - YouTube</a></li><li><a title="Privileged | By Kyle Korver" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/articles/kyle-korver-utah-jazz-nba">Privileged | By Kyle Korver</a> &mdash; What I’m realizing is, no matter how passionately I commit to being an ally, and no matter how unwavering my support is for NBA and WNBA players of color….. I’m still in this conversation from the privileged perspective of opting in to it. </li><li><a title="&#39;The Class Ceiling&#39; Decodes the Cultures of Elite Workplaces - The Atlantic" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/02/class-ceiling-laurison-friedman-elite-jobs/582175/">'The Class Ceiling' Decodes the Cultures of Elite Workplaces - The Atlantic</a> &mdash; When two sociologists interviewed highly paid architects, TV producers, actors, and accountants, they encountered work cultures that favor the already affluent.</li></ul>]]>
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