Well, there a honest opinion of an unbiased engineer, ideally a researcher who was trained to filter his own biases, from the inside of the organization , speaking honesty is likely the best approximation that you can get for “an opinion of Google”.

It is important that the engineer is an insider, as from outside of Google access to its internal knowledge is limited.

Googlers are no more unbiased than someone who gets a job somewhere else. Getting a job at Google might affect your opinions somewhat when you see what people are doing, but there is no special training in being unbiased.

Also, the document we're discussing was not written as a serious research paper. It's a more like one of Steve Yegge's rants, written to be provocative.

> but there is no special training in being unbiased

Citation needed! ;-)

Well, I didn't get any training like that when I worked there, but it was a long time ago and I don't know what they're teaching Nooglers these days.

I suppose you might be referring to diversity training, but it's not the same thing.

Understanding and preventing unwanted biases is a part of basic training in science, statistics and experimental design.