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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by gizmo on Monday August 07, 2017 @10:48PM (#14953514)
He didn't just argue that there was a difference in the distribution but that the underlying cause was biological. Companies like google hire people who excell at certain skills and are therefore at the tail end of the corresponding distribution where the differences in likelihood occurence are largest. If he believes that for engineering there are 10 men for every woman at both tail ends of the distribution then the "natural" gender ratio in engineering teams must be 10:1 or standards are lowered in the name of diversity.

The implications of that worldview are totally toxic.

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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by qu4z-2 on Monday August 07, 2017 @11:26PM (#14953822)
> The implications [...] are toxic.

And therefore it is false?

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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by gizmo on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @06:40AM (#14956378)
It is false because the science is bunk. Social conditioning likely explains all (and definitely explains most) of the measured differences, not biology.

The author has a popular science level understanding of gender differences. Based on that he concludes women are unsuited to be engineers compared to men.

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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by qu4z-2 on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @05:48PM (#14963165)
> It is false because the science is bunk.

Well, then make that argument.

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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by JSONwebtoken on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @02:44AM (#14955091)
Why did you present it as if this is just something that the guy "believes?" I thought that was the strongest argument of his memo and the perhaps the point with the biggest scientific backing.

If you wanted to pick out any argument out of those 10 pages to disassemble, you could have chosen any one of his arguments that haven't been corroborated by hundreds of years of scientific consensus.

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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by gizmo on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @08:23AM (#14957033)
There is no "hundreds of years of scientific consensus" that suggests women are worse than men at math and science. What consensus are you talking about?
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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by remarkEon on Monday August 07, 2017 @11:30PM (#14953851)
Which is, of course, not what he said.
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