Links for May 21, 2018

At Nike, Revolt Led by Women Leads to Exodus of Male Executives

Many of those interviewed, across multiple divisions, also described a workplace environment that was demeaning to women. Three people, for instance, said they recalled times when male superiors referred to people using a vulgar term for women’s genitals.... Most of the people who spoke to The Times insisted on anonymity, citing nondisclosure agreements or a fear of being ostracized in the industry, or in the Portland community, where Nike wields outsize influence. Some have spouses or family members still working there.


Sexual Harassment Was Rampant at Coachella 2018

I interviewed 54 women at Coachella 2018, and they had all experienced sexual harassment at the festival.


Yanny vs. Laurel: an analysis by Benjamin Munson

Now, right away we see that there is something awry about this signal. Where there should be a second formant, there are just speckles that appear random. One thing about this signal is that it’s hard to track the F2. This is perhaps the first ingredient into why it is so susceptible to being identified differently. The F2 is, for some reason (overlapping voices? Intentional shenanigans? The girl from The Ring?) masked. That means that people can use ‘top-down’ knowledge (expectations, beliefs, priming from the words on the screen that this was presented with) to fill in their perception of the tongue’s back-front movement.