10 page anti-diversity screed circulating internally at Google
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#2Somebody should explain this guy that companies hire individuals. And these individuals can be men or women, just like they can be tall or short, fat or thin.
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#3Somebody should explain this guy that companies hire individuals . And these individuals can be men or women, just like they can be tall or short, fat or thin.
He covers that right at the beginning:
> you can’t say anything about an individual given these population level distributions.
His screed is instead concerned with distribution across populations (such as Google's).
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#4Makes me actually respect Google! Would have not expected them having such an open culture that lets controversial viewpoints survive.
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#5Anyone who says that this guy's opinion shouldn't matter should consider that he likely interviews female candidates, sits on hiring committees that evaluate female candidates, decides whether or not female engineers get promoted, etc.
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#6Anyone who says that this guy's opinion shouldn't matter should consider that he likely interviews female candidates, sits on hiring committees that evaluate female candidates, decides whether or not female engineers get promoted, etc.
I'm sorry, but you're mischaracterizing what he wrote and by doing that making his point. There's no "genetic predisposition" for not liking tech, but there are biological differences between the sexes that affect a great many things and he's arguing that career choice might be one of them - which seems a pretty boring observation to me to be quite honest. I think it's weird that you've extrapolated that to conclude that he'll be discriminating against women in hiring decisions.
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#9Somebody should explain this guy that companies hire individuals . And these individuals can be men or women, just like they can be tall or short, fat or thin.
He covers that right at the beginning: > you can’t say anything about an individual given these population level distributions. His screed is instead concerned with distribution across populations (such as Google's).
Somehow I don’t see a guy who says that women “in general” aren’t as technically capable giving similar weighting’s to a woman who went to a women’s college to a man who went elsewhere.
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#10> I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership. Many of these differences are small and there’s significant overlap between men and women, so you can’t say anything about an individual given these population level distributions.
What are your opinions about this? Do you think biological differences leads to social differences (not only gender but race, height, etc)? Do our "intelligences" [1] differ based on our gender? [2]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_multiple_intelligenc...
[2] https://www.elsevier.com/connect/can-brain-biology-explain-w...