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You are allowed to travel everywhere in Norway now if you are a resident, even if you are from Oslo. However, there was a couple of weeks where that was not allowed. Norway is actu…

It might be to force the market to become more effective.

Social issues is quite a clearly a problem, I just guess we disagree on the degree of biological influence, although there are some interesting points you bring up. This whole memo…

> Right. And what I've been trying to say is that the statistical averages aren't the offensive part. That's a straw man. Well you did pose the question, I just answered it, so it …

Maybe I should have been clearer, you stated to the parent reply that: >> I don't understand what you said there, can you elaborate? What is the difference between males being more…

I think you misunderstood me. I was not making a biological correlation, but a statistical one; namely that group averages doesn't say anything about an individual. The nature/nurt…

Let's say you are an american. 60% of americans are overweight. Does that mean you are overweight?

He does a provide a source in the form of a wikipedia article that uses actual citations [1]. The version with sources (gizmodo removed them in their first publication of the memo)…

I did remember it partially wrong. As stated in the article [1] it was reduced by about half, and not to zero. [1] http://www.vg.no/nyheter/meninger/arbeidsliv/fortsatt-behov-...

Norway has had "gender points" in relation to acceptance at university for several studies, especially in the STEM related ones. The gender gap has closed a great deal in most of t…

Ah I see. Thanks for expanding.

As far as I have understood, his main problem with Google is exactly as you describe him. He feels like Google is actively furthering a political agenda, namely the left one, and d…

The post I responded specifically said the memo author got all biological research wrong. Now, his conclusions from that are certainly more debatable. I guess the larger point I wa…

If it is really true that women make 87% of men for the same work, any company that is driven by profit would exclusively hire women. The alternative would be that sexism is so ram…

Modern day Nazi's may use biological differences as a sort of ideological fuel to further their despicable cause, but to lay that sort of intention behind the memo author is also d…

Did you read the memo? He got all the biology research wrong? Please come with some examples of errors in the empirical claims he made. And he is not saying that you are a "freak" …

My point is that not one of them described it in terms such as "shoddy" or "amateur", such as you did. None of them refutes any of the empirical claims he made. This stands in star…

If diverse companies perform better, this would surely mean that there is some sort of difference between the sexes? How else could diversity have an impact on the bottom line of a…

Here you have four scientists with a "review" of the manifesto: http://quillette.com/2017/08/07/google-memo-four-scientists-... They seem not to agree with you.

My intention with this question was to probe if there was anyone that has experience within this field that might have any milestone studies/papers on hand, or something that they …

Do you have any sources on this bias in tech? Genuinely curious.

It is an example of accumulative advantage, which the article author claims underpin the 80/20 rule.