Journalists Fall for ‘Completely Fake’ Stats About Sexism in Tech

Last week, the New York Times published an article claiming, “In a 2016 experiment conducted by the tech recruiting firm Speak With a Geek, 5,000 résumés with identical information were submitted to firms. When identifying details were removed from the résumés, 54 percent of the women received interview offers; when gendered names and other biographical information were given, only 5 percent of them did.” The validity of these statistics which subsequently went viral on social media, however, were called into question by Vox staff writer Kelsey Piper. -- More...