> So again I say why bring up the upstream problem to begin with as it being related to their abilities for engineering? Well, for one, if only 45% of interest

> So again I say why bring up the upstream problem to begin with as it being related to their abilities for engineering? Well, for one, if only 45% of interested applicants are women, maybe 45% female employees and managers is a reasonable goal. > Damon makes weird ability judgements based on the population. I remember a lot of talk about interest levels and personality types. Not much about abilities. I also think the point about multimodal distributions fairly address my concerns about possible bigotry and stereotyping. Which ability judgments concern you? And why didn't the part about multimodal distributions vs mean values assuage your concerns?