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1. Except he never even said women on average are worse. Secondly people being upset is not an argument against the truthiness of statement, no matter how probl

• lukev 9y ago
  > Except he never even said women on average are worse. That is literally the whole point of his memo, that women have a different (i.e, worse, in this context) statistical distribution of ability and inclination to the tech field. > “How dare he question the effectiveness of affirmative action” is also not an argument. Sure it is. His argument is structured as follows: 1. Negative effect Q is caused by both A and B. 2. We can't do anything about A. 3. Therefore we shouldn't do anything about B. That's just bad reasoning.