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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by dymk on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @12:20PM (#14959402)
> 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...

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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by dijit on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @12:31PM (#14959528)
Four PhDs in Social and Gender Biology disagree with him.

http://quillette.com/2017/08/07/google-memo-four-scientists-...

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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by 52-6F-62 on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @12:36PM (#14959574)
He had some great thoughts and elucidated the best I've seen so far. Thanks for contributing this.
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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by observation on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @02:00PM (#14960610)
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).

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