Re:Google Doesn't Want What's Best for Us
by Simon_says on Sunday August 13, 2017 @05:59PM
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My reading of the memo was that Damore's hypothesis was mostly centered around differences in population averages of interest, and not necessarily innate ability. Once you've had several decades of heightened interest in a subject, it's understandable that differences in effective ability would result just from that.
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Re:Google Doesn't Want What's Best for Us
by humanrebar on Sunday August 13, 2017 @08:38PM
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That's my reading as well. He tries to distinguish between "women can't be technologists" and "women can be technologists if they want to, but they don't generally want to".
I'm honestly not sure how one could in good faith make that case given the current climate. A couple weeks ago, I would have bet on his memo being generally derided but not anathematized.
Re:Google Doesn't Want What's Best for Us
by unityByFreedom on Monday August 14, 2017 @08:39PM
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Eh? He mentions abilities in the memo here:
> "I'm simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership."
He also mentions this in one of his interviews [1].