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No, he claimed that men are more likely to choose to enter technical fields, due to a combination of both biological and societal reasons. This is not a pedant
by manfredo 8y ago
No, he claimed that men are more likely to choose to enter technical fields, due to a combination of both biological and societal reasons.
This is not a pedantic distinction. Your summary states that Damore uses biology to say that women are worse at performing in tech roles, whereas the memo was focused on women entering or not entering the field as a whole (though to be fair many news outlets promulgated the same incorrect summary).
Furthermore it also seems to erroneously imply that Damore claimed that biology is the exclusive reason for low rates of women in tech, which is not the case.