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This is almost exactly my opinion. Where I'd differ on the Google case, is that I don't think science can ultimately tell us what is the correct level of divers
by peatmoss 9y ago
This is almost exactly my opinion. Where I'd differ on the Google case, is that I don't think science can ultimately tell us what is the correct level of diversity to strive for.
That's a values question to be slugged out in society. Certainly science (especially if it's well-executed science with broad consensus) can help to inform how we might achieve our desired ends. There's no "right" level of diversity, and I can think of at least several incompatible standards of "fair."
- gizmo686 9y agoI agree that there is a value discussion to be had; but, practically speaking, we might be able to push it off for a while. If the pro diversity camp would actually engage with the science, I believe they will find that most of the disparity we see between the genders is due to societal influences. Further, we would likely find that portions of our society are unnecessarily optimized for males [0]. If the pro diversity camp would spend there efforts dealing with those issues, we could kick the value discussion decades (or possibly generations) down the road. In the mean time, we will get relatively uncontroversial social progress faster. [0] Or, almost equivalently, there exists additional optimizations to better accommodate females that we have not done, giving males an unnecessary advantage.