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9y ago
"there are quite a few scientific studies linked" to support the premises maybe, but even then the conclusions are still largely unrelated to the premises and unsupported by any of the studies cited. I don't see anything part
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I'm sorry but "scientific" is a pretty big exaggeration here even from a purely methodological standpoint. the dude does start out trying to support some of his assertions (albeit seriously misrepresenting at least one of his
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ah yes, those famous evolutionary biological factors diminishing womens' interest in computers that only started showing up right around 1985 and didn't proportionately affect any other field for some reason since computer science
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well not unless you're a member of certain notorious far-left parties anyways [1], but I'm fairly certain Pichai cited not his political opinions but the creation of a hostile work environment in the firing so they'd have a t
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there's unfortunately not a significant scientific consensus on the issue by the psychology community at large due to the sheer number of confounding factors in these sorts of studies, and pretty much anybody who tells you there's
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yeah, so's the fact that they're under investigation by the DoL for wage discrimination against their female employees but I'm pretty sure everyone who agrees with that rant probably thinks it's just because of some supp
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what now we're claiming google is some champion for PC culture? they're in the middle of a massive investigation by the department of labor for systemic wage discrimination against their female employees, I don't see how that