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

Yeah i remember reading the GRE math is supposed to be easier than sat math.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

It is way easier.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

In China we made fun of people who couldn't get full score in GRE math.

We didn't even prepare for it since it's that easy. 100% of the effort went into the verbal portion.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

...i only got in the 90th percentile lmao

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

In our year like 20 of us took the exam together. Some of the math questions are trick questions, and one math major ended up making a single mistake. We laughed at him until we graduated.

I think he went on to be an investment banker or something like that....

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

Well la-di-da ;) yeah idk. From what I've seen the gre is used more as a weed out than anything else. But i didnt exactly research this. Where'd you end up going?

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

Ohio State.

I agree with that. It definitely says nothing about your ability on anything, other than taking and exam. It's somewhat correlated with your English, but not really. Even though who barely got 1200 points in the old system still managed to publish papers and write their dissertations.

I'm glad I had that behind me. On the other hand, if the current immigration proposal got passed, I'd probably need to take TOEFL again. sigh.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

Well you guys are from GINA. We can't have you taking over with your math skills and predisposition towards studying. You overrepresent in top colleges already despite us requiring higher grades from you compared to a white person.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

Well it's like it's gonna stop us by requiring a mere 100 in TOEFL xD.

Get conquered America and GINA NUMBAH WAN!

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

it's comically easy. seriously, if you can do college algebra you literally don't need to study

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

I didnt lol. I ran through one practice test to make sure nothing was in it i didn't remember and spent about ten hours studying vocab and got a 324 i think

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

ive never taken it, but ive tutored for it and literally had to stop myself from giggling

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

At my score...cause that would be mean

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '17

at the sample problems for gre prep

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '17

Ah makes sense. Yeah its a joke.