Why this talk of "cognitive diversity" bullshit: people like James Damore think they're indicative of it:https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/16/opinion/diversity-tech-women-silicon-valley.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=Moth-Visible&moduleDetail=inside-nyt-region-1&module=inside-nyt-region®ion=inside-nyt-region&WT.nav=inside-nyt-region&_r=0 …
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This is in spite of the fact that for the most part, he has the same tastes and opinions as most of his white male cohorts.
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If tech companies actually valued cognitive diversity, they'd screen for it in recruiting and the screening would be blind.
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But they don't. Because they care about "culture fit" which is mostly a way to crowbar in candidates you'd like to hang out with.
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And not surprisingly, those candidates tend to bear some resemblance to the hiring manager, who is usually white and male w/ similar tastes.
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So you really want cognitive diversity? Do blind screening and get rid of culture fit.
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Otherwise, you have no credibility in complaining about the supposed lack of cognitive diversity.
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Replying to @espiers
Google has a serious problem with ideological diversity and you don't care because it's your ideology. What if it were far-right?
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You say that, but you produce no evidence for it, except that a lot of people at Google disagree with you. You are a sample size of one.
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Would you say the same for academia? Is there no value for ideological diversity there with so many openly on the left?
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