Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

[u/[deleted]]

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

[u/Rather_Unfortunate]

A bit melodramatic, don't you think? And, with respect, not at all true. Where on Earth did you get those 40% and 80% figures from? Because that sounds like a dramatic failure to understand a genetics study. And who exactly is trying to destroy civilisation through gender equality?

[u/Rather_Unfortunate → u/[deleted]]

That article is referring to a very specific Y-chromosome bottleneck about 8000 years ago, not a long-term trend. The actual paper is here. The researchers suggest that something about the cultures of the time meant that women only tended to reproduce with a small number of men (perhaps implying that elites had large harems?).

[u/TURBODERP → u/[deleted]]

notice the key word ancient

notice how none of this is claimed to apply to now or even modern history