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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by ptaipale on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @09:44AM (#14957717)
Some quick research on this suggests that the average college graduate in engineering (which is programmer material, at least programmer material for companies like Google) is around 130. Sources like [0].

Therefore it is not unreasonable to deduce that people who work as programmers in prestige companies are, on the average, from the very right-hand tail ends of the normal distribution curve, and the differences of men and women (on the average, again) are significant enough to cause an over-representation of men among this group.

The same thing that causes an over-representation of men among homeless alcoholics at the left-hand-side end of the normal distribution.

[0] https://qz.com/334926/your-college-major-is-a-pretty-good-in...

Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by tree_of_item on Friday August 18, 2017 @04:24PM (#15049444)
I'm gonna call bullshit on this, a 130 IQ average for engineering majors is silly, and seems more like what engineering majors think of themselves than reality.