> Is there literally any conceivable evidence that could convince you that you are wrong? Oh, for sure, if it was proven beyond reasonable doubt culture is not

> Is there literally any conceivable evidence that could convince you that you are wrong? Oh, for sure, if it was proven beyond reasonable doubt culture is not a factor in decision making. > That there are biological differences between men and women? This is not what I am arguing. There's a huge difference between "there are differences between men and women" and "they comprehensibly explain the current gender ratio in the Tech industry". > That seems pretty damning for your theory to me. Not really, because for the fifth time: my "theory" (call it: my anti-theory) is we don't know the extent of how potential gender differences might affect career selection, as long as we have a culture that has embedded strong gender identities even before the first career decision is made. Even if you think girls should play with toy ovens while boys play with toy guns, you can just discount the effect such boxing will have long term. ---- For the rest of your post, let me draw an analogy: Let's say that we are working out of the same office. At some point you are trying to load a website (say, Hacker News) and it doesn't load. You ask me if I know what might be going on: Me: "Yeah, the WiFi has been terrible today, we called the management company to come and fix it". You after trying to ping google.com, and getting about 50% packet loss: "I know what it is, it's the database they use to store the articles, it's broken and that's why Hacker News won't load". Me: "Wait, but the internet is really bad" You: "Yeah, but there's some connectivity, so it must be the database" Me: "Have you tried pinging the host?" You: "No, but I pinged google.com" Me: "Have you tried loading google.com?" You: "No, because I know it's the database" Me: "But... how? Nobody else can't connect to anything because the internet sucks. Even if the internet worked perfectly, there's a bunch of other stuff besides the database that could be broken." You: "Is there any piece of evidence that will convince you it's the database? Why are you so against it being the database? I know it's the database!" That's pretty much the conversation we've been having over the last few days. If a coworker of yours did that, you'd think twice before asking for their next time you have to debug something, wouldn't you?