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Re:Why I Was Fired by Google by imartin2k on Monday August 14, 2017 @03:29AM (#15007105)
"When you want to prove a paper wrong you don't need delve on every nuance, you just need to prove the base premise is flawed. "

Even if so, that assumes that the base premise actually has been correctly identified.

His base premise was not "women are worse engineers than men". Yet this is what most critics and media argued against.

His base premise was about differences in the average distribution of traits, which is a completely different thing, doesn't say anything about abilities of an individual, and actually is not that flawed. There is plenty of scientific evidence pointing towards that direction. It's not total consensus but describing it as "flawed" would be pretty ignorant, as far as I can interpret the scientific status quo.

But understanding this base premise required that people actually would have put some own thought into what they read, and were open to nuance.

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Re:Why I Was Fired by Google by dguaraglia on Monday August 14, 2017 @08:52AM (#15008246)
No, the main premise is that Google is fostering a culture of discrimination by trying to increase diversity. The whole "women are different" argument was just a strut to build that premise. Why bring up "leftist ideals" if he's just trying to make an argument about diversity?

(That's an honest question, BTW, not trying to be inflammatory)

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