An important part of this discussion is using general population statistics, to describe programmers at Google. Programmers at Google are NOT general populatio

An important part of this discussion is using general population statistics, to describe programmers at Google. Programmers at Google are NOT general population. Without seeing that specific data, it may be that female programmers at Google are better than the males. I don't know, and it varies by project and role. Then when we are talking about specific people, all the population statistics are irrelevant anyway.