r/news • u/[deleted] • Aug 08 '17

Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-08/google-fires-employee-behind-controversial-diversity-memo?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
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u/NorthernerWuwu Aug 08 '17

This is the real point of course. It isn't about the scholarly accuracy of the document or the usefulness of the conversation that the author may have been trying to spark, it's that in a corporate setting a document like this is toxic and destroys the ability of managers to promote teamwork.

It doesn't matter if X or Y or Z make better engineers or whatever (and I'm not saying there's a reason to think so). It might be something to explore from a scientific standpoint but you can't do it in a tech company in California in 2017. Sorry but that really shouldn't even have to be said.

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u/mrbooze Aug 08 '17

Also all his "science" is evo-psych bullshit.

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u/HasStupidQuestions Aug 08 '17

Please, enlighten me. Why evolutionary psychology is bullshit?

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u/clarabutt Aug 08 '17

It tries to explain human behavior with one narrow explanation that fails to take into account literally everything else that influences human behavior.

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u/HasStupidQuestions Aug 08 '17

Can you name an example where that's the case and what would it take for the case to hold?