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| A Google Employee's Awesome ‘Anti-Diversity Screed' |
| 2017-08-07 |
| h/t Instapundit ...The author claims that Google’s diversity efforts are coming up short because the company misdiagnoses the problems that lead to a gender gap in tech. Discrimination may be part of it, but it is also true that men and women differ, on average, in ways that might affect their representation in the field (and indeed in different departments within Google). To wit: Men are more likely than women to find it rewarding to work with things rather than people; men are more aggressive and status-seeking than women and thus more likely to climb the corporate ladder and ask for raises; women rate higher on other psychological traits such as anxiety. These differences are all well-documented and will not shock anyone familiar with the research on them. And while there’s some debate about the extent to which these gaps are cultural instead of biological, there’s good evidence that biology does play a role at least some of the time. As the memo’s author writes, gaps like these are found across cultures, and for some of them we’ve identified specific biological underpinnings such as testosterone. IMO, the biggest problem with "affirmative action" that they don't use the same type of criteria used for hiring female opera singers. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #11 Wonder if he talked to his lawyer first, because he is clearly smart enough to know he'd be fired and have a chance at Googles deep pockets. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2017-08-07 22:30 |
| #10 They just fired him. Shmucks. |
| Posted by: Threatch Jeamp8135 2017-08-07 22:09 |
| #9 I meant, if he's good enough at covering his tracks, BP. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-08-07 15:21 |
| #8 I think go-ogle knows there are around (and a big guess here) 80 top IT architects. If they start to eject from the SJW infected corpse it's not going to take long for go-ogle to crash. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2017-08-07 15:11 |
| #7 Not is he's good enough, raj |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-08-07 14:56 |
| #6 At what point this week will we get the news that this guy got shitcanned for writing it? |
| Posted by: Raj 2017-08-07 11:03 |
| #5 BTW, you can suck up a lot of inefficiency and failure when you're a monopoly. Someone should look into that. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-08-07 09:32 |
| #4 Can't wait for the new slow short white folks playing first string in the NBA. All for diversity! |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-08-07 09:31 |
| #3 I think the author (and you) are just sprouting opinion yourselves when you attribute this difference wholly to biology. The left likes people like you, it lets them off the hook for the way they've run society, in particular the whole k-12 education system being fucked up in such a way as to disproportionately affect women and minorities. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2017-08-07 09:18 |
| #2 To read the comments I've seen over this he's definitely right about the shaming of anyone diverging from the google groupthink. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2017-08-07 07:50 |
| #1 Coding is one of those activities where the difference between good, average and poor is very large. I recall the best coders are 6 times more productive than the average, and I am willing to bet they are disproportionately men. Anyway, it is an issue of fact. Men are either better coders on average or they are not. Any and all opinions on the subject are irrelevant. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2017-08-07 03:35 |