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Re:James Damore and three others end Google suit by pas on Saturday May 09, 2020 @07:11PM (#23128996)
One counterexample doesn't "disprove" the correlation. (Mostly because the example is in the correlation already, and the correlation holds, plus it's just a correlation.)
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Re:James Damore and three others end Google suit by UncleMeat on Sunday May 10, 2020 @12:55AM (#23130401)
The comment I responded to very clearly implies that this "things, not people" is the reason for gender imbalance in CS. They are doing far more than identifying a correlation.
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Re:James Damore and three others end Google suit by afiori on Sunday May 10, 2020 @03:04AM (#23130850)
That can be one of many factors. The alleged claim is that "CS fits nicely in this model", whether microbiology also fits is a different question. Also microbiology is closer to medical field than engineering.
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Re:James Damore and three others end Google suit by UncleMeat on Sunday May 10, 2020 @01:03PM (#23134145)
> The alleged claim is that "CS fits nicely in this model"

And there is no evidence provided for this at all.

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Re:James Damore and three others end Google suit by pas on Sunday May 10, 2020 @01:22PM (#23134298)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23129035 sorry for crude link to links
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