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Re: 'Geek' image scares women away from tech industry ? The Register

Riccardo Bernardini <framefritti@gmail.com> Tue, 01 May 2012 08:19 UTC

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Subject: Re: 'Geek' image scares women away from tech industry ? The Register
From: Riccardo Bernardini <framefritti@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Melinda Shore <melinda.shore@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/30/12 7:33 AM, Riccardo Bernardini wrote:
>>
>> So it seems (by this anecdotal and very limited evidence) that
>
>> [ ... ]
>
> So it seems to me that when in possession of only anecdotal,
> limited evidence that it might be a good idea to acquire more
> evidence before drawing conclusions.

Sorry, I did not want to express any conclusive position about this
issue. I was just expressing my impression, given my personal
experience.  I am sorry if gave another impression, but English is not
my native language, so some misunderstanding can happen.

As I said in another post, I tend to avoid this type of discussions
because of the risk of generating more heat than light.

>
> Melinda
>

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