What scientists think about the biological claims made by a Google employee?
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Re: What scientists think about the biological claims made by a Google employee?
#2TLDR; manifesto guy was egregiously wrong in basically all assertions.
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#3Thank you for this submission. This is basically the first scientist disagreeing with Demore. The previous ones (five of them I think, submitted to HN and quickly flagged) basically agreed with what he said.
I think we can now start to have a normal discussion with arguments, based on studies and evidence, rather that name calling (although Suzanne's answer is not entirely unemotional, but that's her right).
Re: What scientists think about the biological claims made by a Google employee?
#4Thank you for this submission. This is basically the first scientist disagreeing with Demore. The previous ones (five of them I think, submitted to HN and quickly flagged) basically agreed with what he said. I think we can now start to have a normal discussion with arguments, based on studies and evidence, rather that name calling (although Suzanne's answer is not entirely unemotional, but that's her right).
You realize she does lead her comment/ TL;DR with "He's secretly pushing an alt-right agenda"?
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#5> argues that cognitive sex differences influence performance in software engineering.
Damore never argued for this, he argued that cognitive sex differences could possibly influence interest in software engineering work as it done today and that difference in interest could partially explain the gender gap in tech. He then suggest that we try alternate approaches when we try to increase women's representation since they might work better, which hints at him thinking that women would be valuable as engineers at Google, just that the current arguably misplaced diversity efforts might not achieve that goal.
Re: What scientists think about the biological claims made by a Google employee?
#6TLDR; manifesto guy was egregiously wrong in basically all assertions.
Author has misread, misunderstood, and misrepresented manifesto guys doc, attributed motives AND tried to tie this into the alt-right.
Re: What scientists think about the biological claims made by a Google employee?
#7Thank you for this submission. This is basically the first scientist disagreeing with Demore. The previous ones (five of them I think, submitted to HN and quickly flagged) basically agreed with what he said. I think we can now start to have a normal discussion with arguments, based on studies and evidence, rather that name calling (although Suzanne's answer is not entirely unemotional, but that's her right).
You realize she does lead her comment/ TL;DR with "He's secretly pushing an alt-right agenda"?
The guy is absolutely pushing an alt-right agenda, it's plain to see in the manifesto, and that's before we get to his guest appearance on a prominent alt-right YouTube show.
Re: What scientists think about the biological claims made by a Google employee?
#8> what scientists think
> one scientist's opinion
We're reaching "both sides of the climate change debate" levels of spinning here.
Re: What scientists think about the biological claims made by a Google employee?
#9Regardless of whether or not you agree with the original manifesto, why couldn't Googlers have a civil discussion like that Quora thread instead of firing him?
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
You realize she does lead her comment/ TL;DR with "He's secretly pushing an alt-right agenda"?
The guy is absolutely pushing an alt-right agenda, it's plain to see in the manifesto, and that's before we get to his guest appearance on a prominent alt-right YouTube show.
> absolutely
You don't know that, and I get little impression of such from his Bloomberg appearance today: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-08-10/fired-engin...
Even so you are aware the Quora question is "What do scientists think about the biological claims?", so the ad hominem is not only a distracting annoyance but is also undermining of one's claim to objective impartiality.