Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by evolve2017 on Monday August 07, 2017 @11:00PM (#14953628)

It seems like you're open to learning more about genetics (I think...) so I'll share some interesting findings that don't really fit with the popular conception of race.

It turns out that the most genetic variability lies between... black people who live in West Africa.

While we can use 'junk DNA' to classify people somewhat well, that doesn't tell us much about what makes a person a person.

This is not a controversial view - here's a discussion of it for example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1893020/

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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by bronz on Monday August 07, 2017 @11:32PM (#14953879)

genetics is complicated. not only is there so called junk dna, there is also epi-genetics. and even the genes that we correlate with certain diseases are not understood well. we dont understand how our dna translates into our physiology. and at no point have i pretended to understand this.

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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by evolve2017 on Monday August 07, 2017 @11:48PM (#14954012)

Totally agree! Especially as a PhD student in genetics.

Just wanted to put out the point that race as we understand it does not map cleanly onto distinct phenotypes.

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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by bronz on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @07:22PM (#14963950)

race does not map onto distinct phenotypes? what exactly do you mean?

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