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Performance is one explanation between differences between two people but will it explain differences between one sample of thousands and another sample of thou

• xienze 8y ago
  > Are men really less performant than women on aggregate? I don't think that's the conclusion being reached here. What I'm getting at is performance is a VERY hard thing to quantify to everyone's satisfaction (after all, I doubt anyone thinks that they aren't a valuable employee, and everyone has numerous examples of "well this other guy sucks, I'm much better than him"), but it has a major impact on pay. But for this specific case, there's one of two things happening: 1. As another poster said, "men" is code for "men working under H1-B visas." 2. In an effort to not look sexist, Google let the pendulum swing the other way and pay women more out of general principle.