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A key question here is what has changed to make these attacks more prevalent. One possibility is it is related to immigration and changing demographics. The area with the most acid…

When I walk into my job at a tech company, how do I know which of my colleagues thinks I’m an outlier among women versus someone who was hired because I’m female that doesn’t deser…

Is there a biological basis for this? I do not want "Gender Studies" references. I want real BIOLOGICAL, you know code mother nature put in you. Sex is basically binary in mammals …

"he disseminated a company wide memo criticizing the company-wide hiring practices in a preachy way that didnt leave room for the company to answer back." Not true, he distributed …

The thing is that this guy clearly thinks some things that affect his ability to do his job. Would you trust him to write a peer review for a female colleague or mentor a black int…

This was way beyond that. I read Zunger's article. Getting offended is in large part a choice. I apply the golden rule. If an Asian guy wrote a similar article for arguing why Asia…

I'm not saying people shouldn't discuss company policies. I'm saying they shouldn't turn those policy discussions into a national/cultural political argument. I suspect that this m…

As I explained to another poster just now: this guy painted a target on himself by becoming a huge liability for Alphabet. Sure, but if Google has already decided it is ok to discu…

Why would computer science be so different from other STEM fields that have radically higher proportions of women? The data from other professions overall seems to be in line with …

The workplace is no place for politics like this. I agree, but I'm pretty sure political posts were already tolerated at Google. If employees are allowed to post to internal messag…

Yeah, just reading the abstract tells a different story than the graph she uses. Google or a college level computer science course is specifically pulling from adults who are in th…

When I looked into this a lot, looking into all sorts of data, reading tons of stuff, my conclusions were: 1. Women are generally more conscientious and studious. I've seen data th…

Personally, I think "women are good at people skills, men are good at STEM" is a misleading simplification. Men and women have different strengths in people skills. It has been my …

POTUS has great power relative to any other singular person in the world. But relative to the total power exercised by the government, they have little (especially with regards to …

You might enjoy this piece which takes your point much further: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2008/08/sarah-p...

Define "science."

and the increase in sea ice there is also likely to be an artifact of global warming. Was there anyone predicting in the 1980s or 1990s that with global warming arctic ice would de…

How do we square this statement from the article "In the past 30 years, the minimum coverage of summer ice has fallen by half; its volume has fallen by three-quarters. " with this …

because they all operate under the assumption that incidental characteristics like where someone is born and what color their skin is are more important than motivational character…

I am not arguing about the crime changes over the past 20 years. The original article was about crime changes in the past few years, based on changes to policy in the last few year…

I don't think police are the right agents to enforce societal change though. I mostly agree, but I do think the police could do more to crack down on the most brazen instances of g…

I read have read an enormous amount about this subject, from all angles and viewpoints. And I actually give a sh*t about getting the answer right, not just confirming any biases. A…

I read a wide variety of sources. I linked to Moskos because he is one of the best, he himself has numerous citations, and thus there is no reason for me to duplicate the work he h…

It seems like we're due for another round of this pendulum. I fear this too. As someone who now lives in a city that suffered enormously from the 70s crime rise, and benefited grea…

Can you expand on the backing off part, though? Peter Moskos has written a lot on this. As part of his PhD, he spent two years as an actual cop in Baltimore. Now he is a professor …