Sundar Pichai Should Resign as Google’s C.E.O.
Geoffrey Miller, a prominent evolutionary psychologist, wrote in Quillette, “For what it’s worth, I think
that almost all of the Google memo’s empirical claims are scientifically accurate.”
Damore was especially careful to say this research applies only to populations, not individuals: “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.”
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When it comes to the genetic differences between male and female brains, I’d say the mainstream view is
that male and female abilities are the same across the vast majority of domains — I. Q., the ability to do math, etc.
As Conor Friedersdorf wrote in The Atlantic, “I cannot remember the last time so many outlets and observers mischaracterized so many aspects of a text everyone possessed.” Various reporters and critics apparently decided
that Damore opposes all things Enlightened People believe and therefore they don’t have to afford him the basic standards of intellectual fairness.
Damore is describing a truth on one level; his sensible critics are describing a different truth, one that exists on another level.
Picture yourself in a hostile male-dominated environment, getting interrupted at meetings, being ignored, having your abilities doubted, and along comes some guy arguing
that women are on average less status hungry and more vulnerable to stress.
In his memo, Damore cites a series of studies, making the case, for example,
that men tend to be more interested in things and women more interested in people.
