Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo
by dymk on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @12:20PM
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> Mostly, it seems, scientists agree with the "facts" he states that arent' google specific
Really? Yonatan Zunger[1] seems to disagree with you.
[1] https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/so-about-this-googlers-man...
Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo
by dijit on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @12:31PM
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Four PhDs in Social and Gender Biology disagree with him.
http://quillette.com/2017/08/07/google-memo-four-scientists-...
Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo
by 52-6F-62 on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @12:36PM
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He had some great thoughts and elucidated the best I've seen so far. Thanks for contributing this.
Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo
by observation on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @02:00PM
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Yonatan Zunger says this:
> nearly every statement about gender in that entire document is actively incorrect,¹ and flies directly in the face of all research done in the field for decades, they should go for it. But I am neither a biologist, a psychologist, nor a sociologist, so I’ll leave that to someone else.
Except it turned out James Damore of the DM has a Masters in Biological Systems from Harvard. And is experienced engineer working in Search (he disputed the author's chops there too).
But I guess the brigading has commenced- I would invite you to read the thing without bias and read it's citations and sources. Even if you disagree that we could do more to remove things like, stress and status to make tech less appealing to men.. you might find out why people are agreeing with him and why this piece circulated internally.
Mostly, it seems, scientists agree[0] with the "facts" he states that arent' google specific. So dismissing it outright without having the discussion is only doing the women in tech a disservice.
[0]: http://quillette.com/2017/08/07/google-memo-four-scientists-...