Tuesday, August 08, 2017

No, the Google manifesto isn’t sexist or anti-diversity. It’s science - The Globe and Mail

No, the Google manifesto isn’t sexist or anti-diversity. It’s science - The Globe and Mail
There are differences between the sexes. There is nothing wrong with that. It is what we do with that knowledge that matters. "Many people, including a former Google employee, have attempted to refute the memo’s points, alleging that they contradict the latest research. I’d love to know what “research done […] for decades” he’s referring to, because thousands of studies would suggest otherwise. A single study, published in 2015, did claim that male and female brains existed along a “mosaic” and that it isn’t possible to differentiate them by sex, but this has been refuted by four – yes, four – academic studies since. This includes a study that analyzed the exact same brain data from the original study and found that the sex of a given brain could be correctly identified with 69-per-cent to 77-per-cent accuracy. Of course, differences exist at the individual level, and this doesn’t mean environment plays no role in shaping us. But to claim that there are no differences between the sexes when looking at group averages, or that culture has greater influence than biology, simply isn’t true."

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