How I wish Sundar Pichai had responded to James Damore's memo about diversity

Re:How I wish Sundar Pichai had responded to James Damore's ... by flukus on Friday August 11, 2017 @03:07AM (#14987287)

> Women on average are more prone to anxiety

This is a statement about women in general, a substantiated, cited and refutable one. It is not a statement about his colleagues who (probably) have a different distribution of traits than the general population. 40% of Americans are obese, that doesn't mean 40% of your colleagues are, are be surprised if the obesity rate of google is the same as the general population.

> Make tech and leadership less stressful. Google already partly does this with its many stress reduction courses and benefits.

This was a suggestion on how to make the population of google more representative of the population in general.

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Re:How I wish Sundar Pichai had responded to James Damore's ... by AstralStorm on Friday August 11, 2017 @04:21AM (#14987639)

The main question is, why? Google attempts to be a company bringing innovative solutions and making way more money than an average or median. Why should they go for equalization? (Diversity is not the same as matching the average or median.)

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Re:How I wish Sundar Pichai had responded to James Damore's ... by flukus on Friday August 11, 2017 @05:49AM (#14988034)

1. Diversity has some inherent strengths, it's not a bad thing unless it's forced. There are probably several other types of diversity that may help google, people from blue collar backgrounds for instance.

2. Google could theoretically double their employment pool and enjoy the side effects of that, like lower wages. That's good for Google if it doesn't backfire.

Edit - I love it when they go through your history and even down vote the posts they agree with.

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Re:How I wish Sundar Pichai had responded to James Damore's ... by AstralStorm on Friday August 11, 2017 @01:26PM (#14992221)

Diversity is having variety, not having any specific degree of variety. As it seems to be implemented with a quota on hiring and team restructuring, there has to be a good reason behind any given number. As in actual research in the environment. Basing said quota on general population rates is not sound.

It also says something about the company that he couldn't get this done or believed it cannot be solved via internal processes.

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