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Re:Stop Equating “Science” with Truth (2017) by dekhn on Monday October 18, 2021 @07:56PM (#28913349)
I don't see the need to use evidence to argue against (or for Damore). Everything he said is just opinion, not an actual argument. If instead you want to have an interesting argument, people shoudl start with Larry Summers, who articulated the same question but in a much more intelligent way (and was still cancelled because of it!): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Summers#Differences_b...

https://web.archive.org/web/20080130023006/http://www.presid...

Anybody who cares about Damore's message one way or the other should go back and read what Larry said, and internalize it. A brilliant leader was cancelled because he spoke what is the most likely hypothesis to explain the observed data.

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Re:Stop Equating “Science” with Truth (2017) by mindblock on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @10:03AM (#28918173)
After some thought on Larry Summers' hypothesis, there seems to be one major assumption that he's making that needn't be true - that the major culprit for high engineering and academic positions is aptitude. If this is the case, then he may well be correct, as it makes a lot of sense. But it is still a major assumption.
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