Q18. Individual Thoughts

Q18. Individual Thoughts#

Question#

Could you tell us more about your thoughts? Please tell us why you agree or disagree, and feel free to express opinions with which you partially agree or disagree.

Choices#

  1. Agree

  2. Disagree

Responses#

import pandas as pd
import hvplot.pandas
import titanite as ti

print(f"Pandas: {pd.__version__}")
print(f"Titanite: {ti.__version__}")

%opts magic unavailable (pyparsing cannot be imported)
%compositor magic unavailable (pyparsing cannot be imported)

Pandas: 2.2.2
Titanite: 0.5.0

f_cfg = "../../../sandbox/config.toml"
f_csv = "../../../data/test_data/prepared_data.csv"
d = ti.Data(read_from=f_csv, load_from=f_cfg)
config = d.config()
data = d.read()

2024-08-24 23:57:09.408 | INFO     | titanite.preprocess:categorical_data:125 - Categorize

  • Remove ‘NaN’

data0 = data["q18"].dropna()
len(data0)

71

Note

この質問も聞き方があまりよくなかった気がします。 q17をマトリックスにしてしまったため、1対1対応がとれず、集計がしづらくなっています。

(WIP)

  • They are good, more people from more backgrounds improve science and science outreach

  • The sloppy wording of this survey, for example Q17, tells me it is not taken seriously.

  • Since the fraction of female in undergraduate school of our university is low, it is not easy to increase female fraction in my institute.

  • These will provide us with a better research environment

  • As the effect of affirmative action is uncertain, I do not work for that very much. Of course, the chance of joining this field and employment should be equal. However, I have not been able to accept female students or PDs.

  • Women, especially for ones being a mom, take more responsibility and energy than man and single females to balance the work and family, so they need more equity chances.

  • There is no need to work on forcing a better gender balance. In particular, the fact that there is an open call for women’s quota employment is very problematic because it is gender discriminatory.

  • All is important. It needs better support on administration level.

  • I rely on scientific and technological excellence

  • Jobs applicance should be accepted solely on their knowledge/performance/capabilities, and not because it increases the balance. Of course, this is difficult because you’re most likely unaware of your bias.

  • Nothing more to add

  • Gender balance, diversity, equity and inclusion are required for a good working environment. From different people comes different ideas and point of view, which is critical for science.

  • Some people are not able to realize that the problem exists and that maybe they are also discriminating. Moreover, these initiatives help the discriminated people to feel supported, part of a community, and to understand that they are as good as the others (or even better) and they can believe more in themselves.

  • Any initiatives related to inclusion, equity and no discrimination are always welcome. Every human deserves to be treated as a human with the same rights.

  • Diversity in all aspects helps creativity and science.

  • I think they are precious initiatives to bring up a topic that’s not discussed as often as it should

  • I strongly favor promoting and difending the above values

Prefer not to answer

I think they are all very important and just generally good practice for the field. First of all, I agree with diversity and inclusion. I think by diversity we already guarantee inclusion of all members to some extend.

It depends on what those measures are. Encouraging is perfect, quotas… not so much.

In favor of practices that promote all of these things.

Strange question - What are your thoughts on diversity, equity & inclusion initiatives ? Agree? what answer is that? this is BS question.

I think all these initiatives are very important in order to proactively achieve a more balanced population of scientists. Just letting things evolve naturally is, in my view, not satisfactory as this will take too long and people will tend to entertain (consciously or unconsciously) preexisting biases in the society. Having diverse role models in science is extremely important to change the perception about “who” can be a scientist, and I think it plays a major role in demonstrating that “anybody” can be a scientist. I noticed the same effect, for example, with politicians: in my country, it has become much more common to see women in positions of political power - so common that I now feel shocked whenever I see no woman in a political gathering. Forgive me, I don’t work in the US. What is meant by “equity”? Is it simply fairness? I believe all of these initiatives are important to create an environment that is welcoming to all people.

Respect among human beings is the way to propagate happiness.

I think that Diveryity, Equity, Inclusion and Gender balance are in general very important topics for a more just society in which people can live free and happy.

Diversity will most probably a good method to improve on balancing and E&I, but it should not be the necessary condition. In principle they should be realized even without diverse members of people.

All of these are essential to making people feel they belong, and also to doing better science.

Agree.

I believe that a person’s ability to work is not determined by their gender. It is unfair to use gender as a basis for assessing someone’s capabilities.

Agree.

I find this a dumb question. Of course I would agree on everything. Why wouldn’t I? Opportunities should be available to all, although on paper they might be, inequities exist which mean it is not a level playing field. I strongly encourage initiatives which endeavour to level the playing field.

Do you mean is I have interest i them? Q17 is not formulated clearly sorry, if yes, it should be agree to all of the above because I think they are important to foster more balance and equal chances for everyone.

I don’t understand the question

Our group is two professors and one student. We previously had a female postdoc which we still have good contact with. But at the moment procentages are very missleading.

I think science in general does benefit from a diverse pool of researchers. Im not sure I understand the question, but there is definitely a need for these things.

“It’s important that everyone has the change to reach the same goal if they bring the same results. The background of the person shouldn’t decide which things they can achieve. Different groups of people bring different opinions and ideas which can be very helpful for a field that strives of new discoveries and scientific exchange.”

In general I do agree on any practice that can improve the quality of life in working environment and the inclusion of any kind of diversity. However, my feeling is that today in many countries there is the tendency to care more about inclusion related issue that the quality of researcher, with the consequence of lowering the quality of research staff. I think we should more concentrate on strategy that can make a real impact. For example, the gender balance issue mainly originate around the age of ~30, when one decide to have kids. I we find a solution that allow both parents to be equally affected by the childcare, than the problem will be essentially solved. All other proposals that I have heard in several years can improve the solution only to the next-to-leading orders. We live from creative ideas, which diverse groups are much better in coming up with

People are not enough aware how subconscious biases still exist and that there is a lot of hard evidence for this. When discussions remain vague (‘everyone should have equal opportunity’), obviously everyone agrees and everyone thinks they are already doing this, not realizing that they might unknowingly be contributing to this issue (regardless of good intentions). Unfortunately, I find many diversity/… initiatives stay rather superficial (or even belittling), and not very good at letting the unconvinced change their opinion.

Currently, some “gender balance” can only be achieved via affirmative actions but community (a.k.a. white men) won’t give up the privileged positions they have. DEI initiatives are ineffective because they don’t bring structural/system changes.

I feel like scientific abilities should be more important than having gender balance or diversity.

Fully agree with it Initiatives are very important and impact everybody and the culture of the field of science as a whole - every scientist should be involved in increasing diversity as every scientist benefits from it

Some minorities are still pretty invisible, and there is still discrimination against e.g. trans people just because of being different I agree that we should improve the current situation for each of the above items

I think that forcing gender balance and for example racial diversity in numbers of employees can lead to discrimination. I have witnessed situations when male candidates for some courses where rejected because female received additional points just for their sex. Thus, they have better overall results in the competition, despite having less points from exams or interviews.

I think by taking actions to build a more inclusive work / research space that a more productive and health working environment is the natural result. Most, if not al diversity initiates boil down to making sure there is good communication, fair treatment and an opportunity for everyone to contribute. These things naturally lead to good science.

I just believe that people should be treated in the same way, no matter how they classify themselves or how other classify them.

Creating a global system for distributing postdoctoral researchers and scientists might be a good idea. By registering in such a system, individuals could protect their gender and age information while making their profiles publicly available. Registered researchers would be able to browse and connect with one another, facilitating mutual collaboration and fostering exchange of ideas if desired.

Our policies have typically been at the forefront & we are viewed as a diverse, welcoming group.

Change will take time, but every bit helps. We should not keep our heads in the sand and pretend that it either does not exists or that it does not affect our own group. Moreover, as a white male scientist, I need to be part of the solution. Simply “supporting” my under-represented colleagues and expecting them to bear the responsibility to trying to change things, is NOT enough.

I despise Marxist DEI

We should give opportunity to choose things we want.

Is the “correct” gender being used really our major problem nowadays? Gender balance cannot be a goal of academia/university only, as such does not make sense as long as there are societal biases much earlier on which prevent to possibly achieve a balance.

N/A

I think how we do science and who does science is important. Science is communal and naturally the best results often come from varying perspectives. My research focuses on detecting hidden anomalies in data because my lived experience in science is being an anomaly. We need to understand diversity is very important not just in race or gender but even at socioeconomic and educational levels. As a global community, the general population does not trust science (we saw this during the pandemic) because we have made ourselves unreachable. We have to get better practices in communication and inclusiveness so that we engage more people and garner more support for science and scientific research. I agree there should be some action in these senses, in order to arrive at a situation in which the issue becomes non relevant. That is, being, say, a “women” in science should have the same weight as, for instance, wearing a brown dress.

My personal experience is that a diverse group provides the best social environment for a research team. because it is important to fill positions with competent people no matter what gender/race/background they have, instead of filling the positions with incompetence but all look the same and comfortable. Hierarchy think more about covering up their mistakes, rather than excelling the product and people around them. MIstrust in others and greed will always fail.

It is important to provide the best possible environment to allow everyone to feel fully at their place in Science. It is good to provide initiative within academia to make everyone aware of potential bias but this also needs to be extended to the public if we at some point want to achieve gender balance for instance. It needs to be clear to everyone that gender, sexual orientation, origin, … should not be a break to a career in academia.

It is very important, not only for a fair chance for everyone, but also for quality. A more diverse group can produce higher quality work.

Do not always agree that diversity equals excellence. Excellence is excellence, regardless of gender.

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