I think of it as participating in these kind of discussions without risking my career. But I hear what you're saying, and I agree that this post was needlessly confrontational. I'll try to be a better HN citizen!
So if you argue against Google's diversity policies, you're fine as long as you write on par with one of the greatest writers of his generation¹. If you argue for it, you can get away with any angry incoherent rant.…
By that logic anyone criticizing a company's hiring practices must be fired. If someone claims their employer discriminates against black candidates, you must equally infer they think some of their white coworkers have…
This is known as Lewontin's Fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Genetic_Diversity:_Lewon...
> The current fashion is that there are basically NO biological sex-type differences; that any sex-type differences are socially imposed and generally disadvantageous to women. It's important to know that the existence…
"Stereotype threat" isn't doing well in replication. https://replicationindex.wordpress.com/2017/04/07/hidden-fig... Money quote: "Research on stereotype threat and women’s performance on math tests is one example where…
Have you tried actually disagreeing with leftists? Many can handle it fine and have a decent discussion. But many will explode in self righteous rage and do all the things people blinded by hate do.
When extremely powerful people like that lose their jobs, everyone else gets the message.
If you pick your starting assumption, you can reach any conclusion you desire.
I think of it as participating in these kind of discussions without risking my career. But I hear what you're saying, and I agree that this post was needlessly confrontational. I'll try to be a better HN citizen!
So if you argue against Google's diversity policies, you're fine as long as you write on par with one of the greatest writers of his generation¹. If you argue for it, you can get away with any angry incoherent rant.…
By that logic anyone criticizing a company's hiring practices must be fired. If someone claims their employer discriminates against black candidates, you must equally infer they think some of their white coworkers have…
This is known as Lewontin's Fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Genetic_Diversity:_Lewon...
> The current fashion is that there are basically NO biological sex-type differences; that any sex-type differences are socially imposed and generally disadvantageous to women. It's important to know that the existence…
"Stereotype threat" isn't doing well in replication. https://replicationindex.wordpress.com/2017/04/07/hidden-fig... Money quote: "Research on stereotype threat and women’s performance on math tests is one example where…
Have you tried actually disagreeing with leftists? Many can handle it fine and have a decent discussion. But many will explode in self righteous rage and do all the things people blinded by hate do.
When extremely powerful people like that lose their jobs, everyone else gets the message.
If you pick your starting assumption, you can reach any conclusion you desire.