> He is using "neurotic" in the psychological and clinical sense. I believe he specifies as much in his actual paper. Eh. He's using the psychological/clinical

> He is using "neurotic" in the psychological and clinical sense. I believe he specifies as much in his actual paper. Eh. He's using the psychological/clinical definition, but then draws conclusions on no scientific basis. This is what he said in the memo: > [Women, on average, have more] neuroticism (higher anxiety, lower stress tolerance): This may contribute to the higher levels of anxiety women report on Googlegeist and to the lower number of women in high stress jobs. And this is a quote from the person who actually did the meta-analysis which Damore cites (emphasis is mine): > These sex differences in neuroticism are not very large, with biological sex perhaps accounting for only 10 percent of the variance. > It is unclear to me that this sex difference would play a role in success within the Google workplace (in particular, not being able to handle stresses of leadership in the workplace. That’s a huge stretch to me), [1]: https://www.wired.com/story/the-pernicious-science-of-james-damores-google-memo/ https://www.wired.com/story/the-pernicious-science-of-james-...