Why does this statement sound sexist? Is it true? I feel like I should disagree on principal, but honestly I've remotely no idea if this is true or false.

I thought the data was that there are differences, but they're so small that the average man and average woman overlap in the majority of their characteristics.

They are small, and we are not nearly as good at separating out nature and nurture as Damore's claims require.

The comment was an experiment, I was somewhat appalled to see I got upvoted for that here.

Absolutely a fireable offense to inject that sort of discourse into a professional workplace imo.

> women's innate biological tendency towards neuroticism

What the actual...

Are you serious right now? Men kill women and other men at much, much higher rates than women kill men or other women. What does that say about the the "innate biological tendencies" of men?

It's universally acknowledged that men are more violent than women.

It is not universally acknowledged. Case in point, during the 2016 campaign, people asked if a woman could be trusted with the nuclear codes, but no one questioned whether a man could be trusted with them.

> people asked if a woman could be trusted with the nuclear codes

Who?

> no one questioned whether a man could be trusted with them.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/14/politics/trump-nuclear-author...

https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-na-trump-finger-...

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a47436/t...

I'm surprised you never heard anyone question Trump's temperament regarding control over nukes.

Would saying so at Google get you fired?

Of course not.

I was seeing how far people would go with Damore, and it really saddens me how much my comment was upvoted. People here are the type of people I work with... they all hold these views?

Of course, now that I've clarified, I expect the Damore-types to downvoted my comment, it peaked at +5.

Jfc. You had me there. I need to calm down and get back to work. This whole thread is way too much.

What's even more interesting is that it wasn't flagged and taken down until I clarified that I was trying to be critical of Damore.