Sex differences
This article is effectively a straw man. It uses an argument which isn&#x27;t directly applicable (not central to the points made by James Damore in the Google Memo) to give an appearance of being reasonable. If you want to be more familiar with the science James Damore was referencing, take a look at this video of a presentation by Steven Pinker and the sources referenced therein.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=9PaL5FW5src" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=9PaL5FW5src</a><p>The key takeaway for the Google Memo, is that James Damore was fired for referencing mainstream science, then asking if that was relevant to Google&#x27;s hiring practices. What&#x27;s more, many of his coworkers and many of my fellow college classmates were more than willing to throw him under the bus and impute all sorts of unsavory thoughts and emotions to Mr. Damore with no evidence, while the Google management was willing to publicly do the same while re-disseminating his memo in the worst way possible to encourage misreadings of it. See also Christina Hoff Summers&#x27; video on the subject.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=tu4tB9W3xFo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=tu4tB9W3xFo</a><p>Steven Pinker identifies as a feminist, as does Christina Hoff Summers. Diane Halpern certainly isn&#x27;t a misogynist.<p>The extreme left which ascribes to Postmodernist political theories is coming for the scientists, rationalist nerds, and Aspergers neuro-atypicals. They want to cow everyone into agreeing to their ideologically driven Lysenkoist-like censored science. They represent a new authoritarianism operating through a fear of social ostracism and economic disenfranchisement. (You don&#x27;t have to take my word for it -- you can take theirs. Just pay attention to what campus activists have been saying since about 2014.) If you believe in rational discourse, free speech, and meritocracy, you need to courageously speak out against these authoritarians.<p>(First they came for the social scientists and evolutionary biologists...)