Damore's position, I think, is wrong. His claim that gender differences are explained by women preferring 'people' subjects flounders on the much better male/female split in match, biology, etc. However, he has a right to make his case, and should not be villified for it.
the reality is that we don't really know why there's a more pronounced gender difference in computer programming than in other technical fields.
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oh, I do. It's another thing I've been saying for years, this one since my early teens. Compsci has more 'geek' stigma attached to it, and more women respond strongly to social stigma than men. I can even make some falsifiable predictions for this...
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I tend to agree with that and it's been my go-to BS explanation. not that it's necessarily wrong, but it's BS because it's just conjecture and my own personal biases are thoroughly baked in. At this point though you're not allowed to even ask "why?" on this topic.
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the partisans have already decided what acceptable answers are, and they have announced their intention to throw bricks at those disagreeing.
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as the stigma goes away (it's much less now than it was, but still not completely gone) so the number of women choosing compsci will eventually start to go back up, all other things being equal. Unfortunately all other things arent equal.
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Also, I think math is very distinct from "general computer tech stuff defined broadly" I mean, I have literal clinical dyscalculia and I mostly survive okay in tech.
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I agree, I'm the same, can't math for toffee. But that's not relevant to Damore's point. He divided things up into 'people' subjects and 'thing' subjects. Women are prevalent in many "thing" subjects, but not compsci.
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pssst, routers are people :-P (and, more importantly, programmers are people)
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my god, that means... open source projects are MADE OF PEOPLE!!
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