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1) Google does not hire by sampling at random from a population above an IQ cutoff; you are misusing statistical ideas. http://crookedtimber.org/2017/08/11/from

1) Google does not hire by sampling at random from a population above an IQ cutoff; you are misusing statistical ideas. http://crookedtimber.org/2017/08/11/from-a-logical-point-of-view/ http://crookedtimber.org/2017/08/11/from-a-logical-point-of-... 2) "IQ" (or math ability, or whatever) does not measure if someone is an effective engineer, which is what Google actually wants. 3) Women are also underrepresented throughout software engineering, at places far less rarified than Google. You don't have to be a genius to write a CRUD app--but somehow it's still mostly dudes. I wonder if there could be any other effects that would discourage women from taking those jobs? 4) Have you ever asked a women in tech--any woman, grab the nearest one--if she's had negative experiences in tech? Say, being dismissed, ignored, talked over, harassed?

endorphone 9y ago
Your first points are nonsensical and requires that we believe that technical/problem solving skills and IQ have no correlation, when actual reality demonstrates a very strong correlation. Not a perfect correlation, obviously, but very high. Your third point again is based on a bogus premise. To get those CRUD jobs the developers often went through a gauntlet of CS (or shining independently through projects, etc), hiring selectivity (everyone hires the "top 2%", etc). Even if the job is banal, the road to get there is often very demanding. As to your fourth, I have no doubt that many women in tech have negative experiences. Having said that, many males in tech have negative experiences. I'm a fairly outgoing, obstinate, outspoken type of person and I know in my career I've left a wake of male coworkers who were dismissed and talked over. This industry tends to be hierarchical, and when it's a male that's life, and when it's a female that's sexism.

endorphone 9y ago

Your first points are nonsensical and requires that we believe that technical/problem solving skills and IQ have no correlation, when actual reality demonstrates a very strong correlation. Not a perfect correlation, obviously, but very high. Your third point again is based on a bogus premise. To get those CRUD jobs the developers often went through a gauntlet of CS (or shining independently through projects, etc), hiring selectivity (everyone hires the "top 2%", etc). Even if the job is banal, the road to get there is often very demanding. As to your fourth, I have no doubt that many women in tech have negative experiences. Having said that, many males in tech have negative experiences. I'm a fairly outgoing, obstinate, outspoken type of person and I know in my career I've left a wake of male coworkers who were dismissed and talked over. This industry tends to be hierarchical, and when it's a male that's life, and when it's a female that's sexism.