Sundar Pichai Should Resign as Google’s C.E.O.<br />Geoffrey Miller, a prominent evolutionary psychologist, wrote in Quillette, “For what it’s worth, I think<br />that almost all of the Google memo’s empirical claims are scientifically accurate.”<br />Damore was especially careful to say this research applies only to populations, not individuals: “Many of these differences are small<br />and there’s significant overlap between men and women, so you can’t say anything about an individual given these population-level distributions.”<br />Every weekday, get thought-provoking commentary from Op-Ed columnists, the Times editorial board and contributing writers from around the world.<br />When it comes to the genetic differences between male and female brains, I’d say the mainstream view is<br />that male and female abilities are the same across the vast majority of domains — I. Q., the ability to do math, etc.<br />As Conor Friedersdorf wrote in The Atlantic, “I cannot remember the last time so many outlets and observers mischaracterized so many aspects of a text everyone possessed.” Various reporters and critics apparently decided<br />that Damore opposes all things Enlightened People believe and therefore they don’t have to afford him the basic standards of intellectual fairness.<br />Damore is describing a truth on one level; his sensible critics are describing a different truth, one that exists on another level.<br />Picture yourself in a hostile male-dominated environment, getting interrupted at meetings, being ignored, having your abilities doubted, and along comes some guy arguing<br />that women are on average less status hungry and more vulnerable to stress.<br />In his memo, Damore cites a series of studies, making the case, for example,<br />that men tend to be more interested in things and women more interested in people.
