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Does anybody know how successful this aptitude test was in hiring women? The (sponsored by IBM) article mentions that 349 companies hired 20,000 women based on this test, but they do not mention how many programmers in total were hired based on this test.

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For headline news, I think we would need studies that show that this effect changes results from high ranked studies that used mice. But publishing these would be hard in peer reviewed journals because the peers who will referee the papers will likely be researchers whose own previous publications would be questioned by these new results. In the same podcast, Bret talks about the failings of peer review.

Another problem is that even if the results are published, usually it takes a long time for information to diffuse into the wider community. I assume this is largely because finding a novel ideas is like searching for a needle in the haystack of common knowledge that has been spread far and wide.

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According to Bret Weinstein who figured out the connection between telomere length and breeding, they seem to have quietly changed the breeding protocols to bring the telomere length back down to be in line with wild type mice. He talks about it in a long interview that gets really interesting about a hour in: https://youtu.be/JLb5hZLw44s?t=4083

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Australia has its seasons shifted by half a year, so even if Australia had taken similar measures, I'd expect them to have a lot lower transmission rates because respiratory disease peak in winter. https://www.mja.com.au/sites/default/files/issues/210_10/mja...

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