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> Most of them have mild to strong disagreement with the memo A scientific disagreement? I’m not seeing any links to any recent meta analysis etc. Nor even a

> Most of them have mild to strong disagreement with the memo A scientific disagreement? I’m not seeing any links to any recent meta analysis etc. Nor even any strong claims like “there are no major biological sex differences in personality”. The only strong assertion is that a paper Damore used about intelligence differences has major flaws. But then if you have read the memo you know that that was hardly the main thrust. The scientists who were quoted were being deliberately content-free.

n4r9 8y ago
Yes, scientific disagreement. These are scientists who study gender and evolutionary psychology and say that Damore's scientific claims are unjustified. If you follow through from the links in the article I posted, you'll find further links to comprehensive sources. I'll do some of the work for you: > Lise Eliot, associate professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the Chicago Medical School, did an exhaustive review of the scientific literature on human brains from birth to adolescence. She concluded, in her book “Pink Brain, Blue Brain,”[0] that there is “surprisingly little solid evidence of sex differences in children’s brains.” > Sex differences in cognitive abilities have been well-studied, so it’s intriguing that Damore chooses to ignore this vast literature to focus on personality[1]. The reason, however, quickly becomes clear when we look at the evidence: namely, there’s zero evidence that suggests women should make worse programmers. > There is much literature that flat-out contradicts Baron-Cohen's study, providing evidence that male and female infants tend to respond equally to people and objects, notes Elizabeth Spelke, co-director of Harvard’s Mind Brain Behavior Interfaculty Initiative[2]. [0] https://www.amazon.com/Pink-Brain-Blue-Differences-Troublesome/dp/0547394594/ https://www.amazon.com/Pink-Brain-Blue-Differences-Troubleso... [1] https://sites.google.com/site/dianehalperncmc//books/sex-differences-in-cognitive-abilities https://sites.google.com/site/dianehalperncmc//books/sex-dif... [2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16366817 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16366817

n4r9 8y ago

Yes, scientific disagreement. These are scientists who study gender and evolutionary psychology and say that Damore's scientific claims are unjustified. If you follow through from the links in the article I posted, you'll find further links to comprehensive sources. I'll do some of the work for you: > Lise Eliot, associate professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the Chicago Medical School, did an exhaustive review of the scientific literature on human brains from birth to adolescence. She concluded, in her book “Pink Brain, Blue Brain,”[0] that there is “surprisingly little solid evidence of sex differences in children’s brains.” > Sex differences in cognitive abilities have been well-studied, so it’s intriguing that Damore chooses to ignore this vast literature to focus on personality[1]. The reason, however, quickly becomes clear when we look at the evidence: namely, there’s zero evidence that suggests women should make worse programmers. > There is much literature that flat-out contradicts Baron-Cohen's study, providing evidence that male and female infants tend to respond equally to people and objects, notes Elizabeth Spelke, co-director of Harvard’s Mind Brain Behavior Interfaculty Initiative[2]. [0] https://www.amazon.com/Pink-Brain-Blue-Differences-Troublesome/dp/0547394594/ https://www.amazon.com/Pink-Brain-Blue-Differences-Troubleso... [1] https://sites.google.com/site/dianehalperncmc//books/sex-differences-in-cognitive-abilities https://sites.google.com/site/dianehalperncmc//books/sex-dif... [2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16366817 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16366817