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Cognitive scientist at Harvard.

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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 24 Aug 2017

    Why'd Google say things it knew were codswallop? To protect itself from lawsuits & govt regulators. Why this is badhttp://tws.io/2w9kVGr 

    8:41 PM - 24 Aug 2017
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      2. (((Jewy Jewstein)))  💮‏ @RandyHauser 24 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @kelly_carlin

        He was fired because he was in a hiring position and publicly expressed bigotry.

        3 replies 0 retweets 8 likes
      3. Gamer Scholar‏ @BPDCastellanos 24 Aug 2017
        Replying to @RandyHauser @sapinker @kelly_carlin

        What did he say that was bigoted?

        1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes
      4. (((Jewy Jewstein)))  💮‏ @RandyHauser 24 Aug 2017
        Replying to @BPDCastellanos @sapinker @kelly_carlin

        That women are consritutionally worse at programming. Its untrue, dumb and actionable.

        9 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      5. Jennifer‏ @jenalden 24 Aug 2017
        Replying to @RandyHauser @sapinker @kelly_carlin

        1/ Did you read the whole thing? I don't think he could have gone farther out of his way to say the opposite, that given any one particular

        0 replies 0 retweets 8 likes
      6. End of conversation
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      2. mick‏ @micked13 25 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        I think this is a better take on the issue...https://www.economist.com/news/21726276-last-week-paper-said-alphabets-boss-should-write-detailed-ringing-rebuttal …

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      3. tom merle‏ @tom_merle 25 Aug 2017
        Replying to @micked13 @sapinker

        A really terrible article that ignores science

        1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
      4. Kree Darnor‏ @Kree_Darnor 25 Aug 2017
        Replying to @tom_merle @micked13 @sapinker

        And makes false statements about the content of the memo.

        0 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
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      1. gavan mccullough‏ @gavanmac 24 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Great article by Weekly Standard, but what strange times we live in that they are standing up for science and not Nature & Scientific Am!!

        0 replies 1 retweet 8 likes
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      2. RandomWalkInScience‏ @RWiSblog 25 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @Oliver_S_Curry

        Still not clear whether innate sex differences account for 20:80 split in Google SWE. Correlation is not causation.

        6 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      3. Oliver Scott Curry‏ @Oliver_S_Curry 25 Aug 2017
        Replying to @RWiSblog @sapinker

        I agree that it's not clear. But it's going to get any clearer if we ignore (half) the science!

        1 reply 0 retweets 10 likes
      4. Oliver Scott Curry‏ @Oliver_S_Curry 25 Aug 2017
        Replying to @Oliver_S_Curry @RWiSblog @sapinker

        *not. It's NOT going to get any clearer if we ignore (half) the science.

        2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
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      2. Alicia Parr‏ @aliciaparr 25 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        The “tyranny of opinion” of the majority has the same effect as censorship enforced by law.

        1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
      3. Alicia Parr‏ @aliciaparr 25 Aug 2017
        Replying to @aliciaparr @sapinker

        When everyone lives “under the eye of a hostile and dreaded censorship” by their fellow citizens, there will be no free inquiry.

        0 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
      4. End of conversation
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      2. Michael Rashkin‏ @mhyke926 24 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        I've worked in companies for > 40 years. If a person's speech is in opposition to company culture, he shud be fired. Not a free speech issue

        2 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
      3. Summa‏ @Marcusbonum 25 Aug 2017
        Replying to @mhyke926 @sapinker

        No company should only listen to one side. Especially one that can censor others.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      4. Michael Rashkin‏ @mhyke926 25 Aug 2017
        Replying to @Marcusbonum @sapinker

        He shud be able to offer his opinion to management, but if he publicizes opinions that damage the company, they have the right to fire him.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      5. Robert Barbour‏ @r_barbour 26 Aug 2017
        Replying to @mhyke926 @Marcusbonum @sapinker

        He published internally, one of his colleagues leaked it.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      6. Michael Rashkin‏ @mhyke926 26 Aug 2017
        Replying to @r_barbour @Marcusbonum @sapinker

        Google & other tech companies encourage women to aspire to tech roles. They don't want women to feel second class. Damore shud respect that.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      7. Summa‏ @Marcusbonum 26 Aug 2017
        Replying to @mhyke926 @r_barbour @sapinker

        I don't want to feel 2nd class. That's a pretty open ended argument.

        0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      8. End of conversation

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