News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo. Parent comment

Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by ajross on Monday August 07, 2017 @09:48PM (#14952907)
This isn't an issue of "fashion" or "opinion". It's an issue of whether the guy is right or wrong, and if he's wrong[1] whether or not he's caused damage to his employer[2], and if that is true whether it is a firing offense[3].

You don't get to avoid discussion[4] about those subtitled points by retreating to some kind of invented safe space here. Out with it. Is he right?

[1] He is.

[2] He has.

[3] It is.

[4] Yeah, I'm just asserting without evidence too. But only to avoid the pointless flames that result.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by avaer on Monday August 07, 2017 @09:56PM (#14952986)
Right, wrong, damage, and safety are precisely the dressed-up fashions PG's essay talks about.
[ Parent | on HN ]
[dead]
[dead]
Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by ctlby on Monday August 07, 2017 @10:16PM (#14953195)
Please stop peddling this science denialism. There is great consensus outside the intellectually-bankrupt fields of sociology and gender studies.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by ajross on Monday August 07, 2017 @10:31PM (#14953350)
If you're going to assert a scientific consensus, my friend, you're going to have to cite one.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by ctlby on Monday August 07, 2017 @11:01PM (#14953636)
Start with Halpern's "Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities" and follow the bibliography where it takes you (I really would like to provide the references, but just I don't have the patience to copy them now). For something rigorous that's digitally available, start with sapinker's slides from his 2005 debate [1]. Modern understanding is quite similar, only with new evidence and insights from evolutionary psychology and neurobiology.

[1] https://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/debate05/pinker.slides.html

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by great_psy on Monday August 07, 2017 @10:04PM (#14953074)
Two words are not a valid reference. If you want to be taken seriously, put some effort in your arguments.
[ Parent | on HN ]