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Revision as of 12:36, August 12, 2017
James Damore is an engineer who was fired by Google after circulating a memo saying, "We need to stop assuming that gender gaps imply sexism" - mirroring the viewpoint that forced a Harvard University president to resign several years ago. Google accused Damore of "advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace", even though at least one university professor said that Damore's 10-page memo was scientifically accurate.
The professor pointed out:
- Neither the left nor the right gets diversity completely right
- The social science evidence on implicit and explicit bias has been wildly oversold and is far weaker than most people seem to realize
- Google has, perhaps unintentionally, created an authoritarian atmosphere that has stifled discussion of these issues by stigmatizing anyone who disagrees as a bigot and instituted authoritarian policies of reverse discrimination
- The policies and atmosphere systematically ignore biological, cognitive, educational, and social science research on the nature and sources of individual and group differences.[1]