Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by orangecat on Monday August 07, 2017 @10:19PM (#14953220)

research suggests that “greater nation-level gender equality leads to psychological dissimilarity in men’s and women’s personality traits.”

That's a quote from this study: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h.... You can argue that even in more egalitarian countries the differences are entirely due to social pressures; you can't say they don't exist.

"the lack of women in tech is fine becuase that's just what happens when women, who are biologically worse at programming, don't go into tech"

"biologically worse at programming" is a total fabrication. The accurate claim is "less interested", although I suppose that's not as effective for your Two Minutes Hate.

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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by glorkk on Monday August 07, 2017 @10:28PM (#14953307)

You can take any statement and rephrase so that it sounds horrible. This is just sophistry.

That whole paragraph is saying that men and women, __as populations__ , have biological differences in psychology, temperament and interests. In prosperous societies, men and women naturally assume complementary, rather than overlapping, roles.

> We need to stop assuming that gender gaps imply sexism.

Do you disagree with this? And if so, why?

"Facts don't care about your feelings".

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