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I seem to recall the story being that they published a version of the memo that they received without citations or graphs. Do you have a source that they had th

• Cursuviam 9y ago
  From the Gizmodo article > The text of the post is reproduced in full below, with some minor formatting modifications. Two charts and several hyperlinks are also omitted.
  • fenomas 9y ago
    Sure, and that can be read to mean either that they knew graphs and links were missing (e.g. because they received the memo as plaintext) or that they purposely removed them out of political or whatever motives. Isn't the former the more parsimonious assumption? Now that I check back, I notice that the gizmodo version also changed all of Damore's bullet-point list items to be singly-indented, where in the original many of them were doubly-indented. It's hard to imagine any motive for doing that intentionally, but it's what one would expect if Gizmodo got the text without its original formatting.
    • throwaway613834 9y ago
      > Sure, and that can be read to mean either that they knew graphs and links were missing (e.g. because they received the memo as plaintext) or that they purposely removed them out of political or whatever motives. Isn't the former the more parsimonious assumption? Dude... no. The "most parsimonious assumption" when someone says they are reproducing something "with modifications" is that they are perfectly well aware what modifications were made, and they most likely made it themselves. Like when someone tells you "don't open that box", a sane person doesn't conclude "ah, chances are good he has no idea what's in the box".