That's the crucial combination that is causing the tech world to be so uninsightful about itself and the potential harms of their products.
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Tech world is dominated by people who're smart in a tiny, narrow domain and who—sadly & wrongly—are VERY confident that's more than enough.
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It's 2017. How can an adult confidently argue that one gender has more empathy and collaboration AND is thus less suited to tech industry?

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Unfortunately, such not-so-smart views about society/gender IN COMBINATION with hard-to-believe lack of insight about tech are quite common.
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I know this is unpopular, but I disagree with firing that feels more like PR-driven scapegoating of one person for a widespread problem.
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Here's a thing I had written about this way back in 2012. This is a pervasive reason for why tech is where it is. https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/06/15/computer-sciences-sputnik-moment/change-the-cowboy-culture-in-computer-science …pic.twitter.com/AJY04BBlSi
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Also: I've got a very rich dataset ON JUST THIS. Been trying for a year to get meager funding for 2 postdocs. Nobody wants to fund research.
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Everyone wants to fund summer/code camps that they can put their name on. What we *need* is more research: to understand better. No funding.
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Not "fundamentally" but strong cultural & social factors–see change over time & countries. Biology? Over-emphasized. https://twitter.com/DanielHofheinz/status/895659413645742082 …
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Maybe some differences for few narrow skills that *IF* IF IF there was total equal opportunity would mean slightly different distributions?
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But 1-Those seem a few, narrow things. 2-There's no pure biology; 3-Small vector compared to what we know about culture and discrimination+
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(Again see change over time and cultures/countries–if biology were that huge a deal, you wouldn't see this kind of rapid change in domain).+
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But MORE IMPORTANTLY, things that people argue that men, on average, might have slightly higher average are NOT what tech exclusively needs+
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