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To save everyone the click: HR managers: 76% female, HR workers: 75% female, HR assistants: 84% female.

That doesn't make the remaining 24% more clueful. Identifying a department by the gender of its workers seems pretty suspect.

I read the original comment as implying that the average HR person reviewing your resume will be a clueless woman. Not as implying that only women work there or that people of other genders working there are more clueful.

The comment is open to interpretation, and you are free to interpret it in a less charitable way. The ambiguity is absolutely something we can and should criticize the comment for

I never implied any of that nonsense that I’ve perhaps triggered nor I want to be responsible for other people’s interpretations outside core meaning

Neat fact: statistical independence means that two factors are orthogonal.

My prior, expressed in my earlier comment, is that cluelessness and gender are orthogonal.

The distribution in other categories is fascinating, and HN doesn't format tables well.

Though "saving a click" typically refers to spammy clickbait news articles that bury the lede, which a statistical table directly relevant to the conversation does not qualify as.

I found it useful at least.

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