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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by tptacek on Monday August 07, 2017 @09:58PM (#14953016)
He said Google has '[h]iring practices which can effectively lower the bar for “diversity” candidates by decreasing the false negative rate', created in part because "humans are generally biased towards protecting females".
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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by ctlby on Monday August 07, 2017 @10:09PM (#14953126)
The most direct reading of his claim is that they're hiring unqualified women. He would presumably be happy with a larger mix of female colleagues if he felt standards weren't being lowered.
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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by ajross on Monday August 07, 2017 @10:35PM (#14953383)
Exactly. To wit: he thinks Google is hiring too many women. Yikes. Yeah, that'll get you fired, folks.
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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by notgood on Monday August 07, 2017 @10:00PM (#14953041)
...which is true and even google admits they do so to increase female count?
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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by tptacek on Monday August 07, 2017 @10:08PM (#14953114)
I'm pretty sure Google does not in fact "admit they do [anything] to increase female count".
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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by ubernostrum on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @01:06PM (#14959897)
The claim made is that they "decreased the false negative rate".

Google has long prided itself on rejecting large numbers of qualified candidates. Since decreasing the false-negative rate inherently means "hire a greater quantity of qualified candidates", I fail to see how the bar was lowered.

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