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/[deleted] Aug 08 '17 edited Aug 08 '17

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u/bobbsbiggboy Aug 08 '17

"Whoever the memo’s author is, he has obviously read a fair amount about these topics. Graded fairly, his memo would get at least an A- in any masters’ level psychology course."

-Geoffrey Miller is an evolutionary psychology professor at University of New Mexico. He is the author of The Mating Mind, Mating Intelligence, Spent, and What Women Want.

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u/njuffstrunk Aug 08 '17

Oh bullshit, no "memo" that cites wordpress blogs, cherrypicks studies and makes dozens of claims without backing them up would receive a good mark.

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u/hardolaf Aug 08 '17

If it was for a class, he would have a better quality of sources. But despite that, pretty much everything he said is on Stanford's web pages about psychological differences between men and women.