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Here is the key part: > Of course, men and women experience bias, tech, and the workplace > differently and we should be cognizant of this, but it’s far fro

• therebedragons 9y ago
  > And then he talks about "Google lowering the bar". Strange how you directly quote parts that don't mention the lowering of the bar, then suddenly paraphrase the lowering the bar part, and put quotes around a non-quote. This is the sort of intellectual run around that is really common. I searched the doc, and Damore uses this word "bar" exactly once (if the search function can be believed - lowering zero): > Hiring practices which can effectively lower the bar for “diversity” candidates by decreasing the false negative rate And this links (via the text "effectively lower the bar for") to an internal Google chat I can't see. So ten pages, and lower(ing) the bar is mentioned once, in which he links to some discussion which I assume is relevant to the quote. How can anyone know what that quote means with out reading the internal google chat? For all I know, it links to an chat discussing false negatives in hiring, because I find that whole sentence confusing - how is decreasing false negatives bad? Is he saying they only use practices which reduce false negatives on diversity hires and not other hires? That would actually be really interesting - Google conducting different interviews based on "diversity" and finding they get better candidates as a result would be weird not to replicate. In any case, that internal chat must clear up at least part of that context, and I can't read it so I have no context for this single line. Given this was an internal memo, however, the author gave its intended audience full access to the context, so even then, I can't see how this can be used as a sweeping statement by those externally of much of anything.