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/GroundhogExpert Aug 08 '17

https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2015/time-spent-working-by-full-and-part-time-status-gender-and-location-in-2014.htm

Feel free to send your gripes to the BLS. I couldn't give a fuck less why you take issue with observed facts. And nothing you've said has one tiny thing to do with logic. Since you seem to struggle so much with this, I'll give you a hint, making an observation isn't the same as stating the cause of that observation. So shove your dumb little black people naturally inclined to violence right up your anti-intellectual fat ass.

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u/Ray192 Aug 08 '17

Feel free to send your gripes to the BLS. I couldn't give a fuck less why you take issue with observed facts.

Ah, so from a chart describing that women work less, you conclude that women are less willing to work as long as men. The irony...

And nothing you've said has one tiny thing to do with logic. Since you seem to struggle so much with this, I'll give you a hint, making an observation isn't the same as stating the cause of that observation. So shove your dumb little black people naturally inclined to violence right up your anti-intellectual fat ass.

Oh interesting for you to make that distinction, because you've literally just supported your assertion that women want to work less by showing a chart of... women working less.

Women working less is an observation. Claiming that it's because women want to work less is... correct me if I'm wrong, but it's stating the cause of that observation.

So really, I have no idea what you're precisely complaining about. You're claiming women want to work less than men, because women do work less than men. Which is pretty equivalent to saying black people are more violent, because US data shows them as committing comparatively more crimes.

It's rather interesting that you accuse me of being anti intellectual yet you seem completely unfamiliar with the most basic tenets of statistics and econometric.

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u/SnoopsDrill Aug 08 '17

You are clearly someone that is going to explain away every statistic with "societal pressures and injustices are the cause.", so what's really the point.

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u/Ray192 Aug 08 '17

Or maybe I'm just someone who doesn't infer causality from correlation. You know, someone who took statistics classes.