No, actually the fact that women choose STEM least where they have most freedom to choose supports the ample evidence that men and women have different interests on average. https://twitter.com/inquirer2772/status/959605964273016834 …
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That women have the highest mathematical attainment in societies with more women in parliament strongly suggests a stereotyping effecthttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/40906547_Cross-National_Patterns_of_Gender_Differences_in_Mathematics_A_Meta-Analysis …
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Replying to @moh_kohn @HPluckrose
Any hypothesis also needs to explain this bizarre trend. Innate interests can't.pic.twitter.com/4L5RcFffX1
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Replying to @moh_kohn @HPluckrose
Your first tweet is irrelevant: interest and competence are different things. There seems to be innate differences in preferences, but not in average performance. As a country becomes more gender equal, the performance gap diminishes while the interest one increases.
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Replying to @amiguello1 @HPluckrose
Actually this meta-analysis distinguishes ability and attainment, try again. I'm not taking a hard position that there is no innate interest gap. I'm saying that hypothesis doesn't have sufficient explanatory power.
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But that's OK. There is no lack of people looking at differences as socialised and a result of discrimination. That has been orthodoxy for about 50 years now. It was when someone tried to look at it biologically, just once, that everyone lost their shit and he got fired.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @amiguello1
Now wait a minute, "this is wrong" and "you should be fired for saying this" are two different propositions. Of course workers are fired for speech all the time and it is generally Damore's dreaded "left" defending them. But that's by the by. 1/2
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Damore deserved to be fired because he offended people in a stupid way. That's how life works. That he made claims that can be intellectually defended is beside the point. There is no "Right to say offensive but plausibly true stuff at work".
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No, there isn't, but we can still criticise Google for firing people for telling the truth and thank Damore for demonstrating how taboo it is to point out that gender differences exist now. This could have been stupid or it could have been brave.
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It could be genius for Damore as he is now a celebrity. And point taken, it's an interesting topic. But as my previous comment implied, I'm happy Google fired him. Some will criticize, some will praise. Thank you Google for firing Damore.
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Why are you happy? Is this a commitment to workplaces being able to say which ideas may be expressed at work generally or specifically to do with gender?
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