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All this also assumes that SAT scores map well to interests and not aptness.

You might do well enough for a PhD in maths and in sociology and still decide try to become carpenter because you love working with wood more than sitting in an office, no matter if you're arguing math or social contexts.

For a woman that might be the hardest career of all these, too (2% of carpenters are women).

> believe that has a somewhat high status

especially when CS folks are still considered nerds by default and nerds are still the butt of jokes.

It's not high status, there's just a window of opportunity where it's high paying compared to jobs with similar complexity (clerical office work). That, too, will end.

He did himself. Got ripped to shreds in a forum with folks that I'd expect to be somewhat sympathetic with his cause.

He then reworked the doc a bit to be less overtly offensive (the published version is one of these later ones), still got shot down in a friendly way by the sympathetic part of the Google population for bullshit reasoning. Eventually it got wider circulation - not sure by whom, but he certainly didn't object to that.

At some point, when managers and friendly inclined folks tell you to shut up at work, you do. If you decide to pursue the topic further, don't whine when people disassociate themselves from you - not for the content of your speech, but for your conduct and the disruption that comes with it.