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Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by taysic on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @07:15PM (#15023603)
At one point you're talking about malformations and in the next you're talking about perfectly healthy people. Academically, we see that women excel up to college with no barriers in their mental capabilities. What other evidence do you need?

I can tell you as a women in tech, there is absolutely nothing about tech that is that difficult to understand or comprehend. Nothing more than the many other professions women excel in and are equally represented.

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Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by jorgemf on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @07:25PM (#15023670)
you are having bias with the word malformation. It is not something bad per se, it only means it is not what you find in most people and that is have bad consequences (or what we want to classify as bad).

> we see that women excel up to college with no barriers in their mental capabilities

This doesn't mean anything. Performance is not only about mental capabilities but also in effort. There are mentally disabled people who can pass college, but it is so hard for them and they have to strive a lot to succeed, and this is why you don't see so many of them in college. So this argument doesn't probe anything.

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