Yes, one more post about the Google memo. Here, I review the evidence that was put forward to support the idea that the gender gap in STEM participation (especially in engineering) is due to stereotypes and discrimination. Admittedly, I haven't discussed much this topic on my previous posts, as I have a strong prior against this hypothesis, and the evidence I have presented points to a strong role for biology (And there are other things I want to read and write about!). But if one thinks that the role of st…

Collection of papers and articles that I’ve spotted since my previous links post that seem interesting. Psychology Précis of Social Perception and Social Reality: Why accuracy dominates bias and self-fulfilling prophecy (Jussim, 2017) Stereotypes are more accurate than you think Reality causes stereotypes in general Sometime, stereotypes causes reality (a self-fulfilling propecy), but this tends to work in a good direction (Pygmalion effect types of things) Imagine of the results went the other way Reg…

In my previous articles about the Google memo, I mentioned repeatedly the existence of an international gap in the proportion of women in STEM education. Some people criticised this, citing examples of, for example, United Arab Emirates, India, or Saudi Arabia. I tried to answer some of those critiques in previous posts, but I gather from some reactions that it wasn't very convincing, and I admit it was disorganised. So here is a more structured exploration of that. The conclusion is still the same: Women a…

Two recent articles, published here and here claim to debunk the Google memo. They are wrong. Here is why. [This is my third post about the Googlegate (Post 1, Post 2)] Article 1: Science Totally Debunks That Shocking Manifesto That Got a Google Employee Fired Current research generally does not find evidence that variations in preferences, psychology, or personality stem from genetic or biological factors. Rather, they're primarily attributed to culture and socialisation. In his manifesto, however, Damore…

In my previous post here I explained why the Google memo is fundamentally right in its factual claims about the broad population, which in turn explains the proportion of women in Google itself. Here I discuss some arguments against what has already been explained. The first argument is the Argument ad Asia The argument here is that there are many countries where women are the majority among students in science. Most of these countries are not what one could call gender egalitarian. As I explained in the p…

It is, and it is not sexist. So recently a software engineer at Google published this, where he says a bunch of things about why it is wrong to assume that there are less women in Google because of discrimination. The author doesn't deny that sexism exist, but says that one doesn't need sexism to explain the % of women at google.  The article initially had links to evidence to (presumably) back what it says. These were removed by Gizmodo when they published it. EDIT:LINK TO THE ORIGINAL TEXT The manifesto, …