Kristin, I'm glad you got inside with the groceries! It's always fun reading Natter in the morning and seeing the nights events in fast-forward.
Legal types - if anyone knows off the top of their head - I'm looking for a term that describes discrimination (in an employment context, for example) where independant discretionary decisions (like a promotion or something, for many people over a period of time) are made by a manager but the pattern of those discretionary decisions shows (not necessarily intentional) discrimination.
I'll look it up when I get home, but I'm curious now and it's distracting me.
I like that - it certainly gets the point across.
eta: The person making the decisions has defended his actions by saying "each one of those decisions was completely discretionary. The individual circumstances showed those people didn't qualify. I can't help it if they were al Puerto Ricans." But non-Puerto Ricans in the same circumstances were consistently approved.
"disparate impact" maybe, Stephanie?
How are you feeling these days?
Disparate impact sounds right.
Thanks, bon and Sparky (eta: and Vortex). My brain kept coming up with "differential impact".
I"m feeling pretty good, actually. Almost 15 weeks now. The nausea is gone and I have almost no appetite, but I was just looking through my LJ entries from Ellie's pregnancy and about the same thing happened at the same time, so I'm not too worried. I think I have an ultrasound next Thursday and if all goes well, I should be able to find out the baby's gender.
My brain kept coming up with "differential impact".
see, this is what happens when lawyers do calculus ;)
Last night I fixed the hacked domain and ate champagne grapes. I still have sinus funk, but oh my god,
champagne grapes.
I have had constriction in my esophagus off an on for like 4 days now and it can STOP already. feeling like I might hurl or can't swallow is no fun.
