Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo
by ece on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @02:02AM
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Do you have any better studies to cite for what you're saying? Because if you don't you shouldn't be saying what you're saying.
Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo
by depressedpanda on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @10:11AM
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Regarding cognitive differences between men and women having a biological component: https://stanmed.stanford.edu/2017spring/how-mens-and-womens-...
Regarding the quality and replicability of stereotype threat studies, that came in vogue after the seminal Steele & Aronson 1995 paper:
https://replicationindex.wordpress.com/tag/does-stereotype-t...
https://replicationindex.wordpress.com/2017/04/07/hidden-fig...
https://heterodoxacademy.org/2015/12/30/is-stereotype-threat...
The problem is that many people seem to forget that the difference applies to averages, and therefore mean very little on an individual level.
In other words, it's not far fetched to assume that a part of the gender gap in STEM/CS is because of biology, since an average trend would influence said gap. Conversely, it's incorrect to claim that a specific woman is more ill-suited doing STEM/CS than a man, just because she's a woman.
Also, I didn't go through all the references, but Adam Grant (at least indirectly) cites the 1995 study by Steele & Aronson which has been proved to be of shoddy quality. Like everyone else who denies any possibility of biology influencing how people think, he seems to have a political axe to grind. I therefore consider his opinions somewhat unreliable.