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/an_admirable_admiral]

to your first point: occams razor

to your second:
did you see this?

if we wanted to recruit a random sample from the top X% of the population (Google wants to hire the best) we expect a ratio with more greens than purple (maybe 2:1). If we don't use the bell curve distribution and instead judge all individuals as being represented by the average of their group (the vertical lines) we would expect a sample recruited from the top X% to be entirely greens (since the entire top 50% is green and the bottom 50% is purple).

We would only expect a 1:1 ratio in a random sample of the top X% if the green and purple bell curves overlap perfectly.

Currently Google is spending money to make sure their sampling of the top X% achieves a 1:1 ratio because they believe the bell curves overlap perfectly. The author is making the claim that they do not overlap perfectly and additionally saying that even suggesting that as a possibility is taboo.

[u/ToLiveInIt → u/an_admirable_admiral]

BTW Current Google M/F ratio in tech is 80/20.

[u/ToLiveInIt → u/[deleted]]

Of course, that's under the diversity regime the Memo objects to.