Re: I am confused
."..that everything he said in his memo was backed up by a myriad of prominent sociobiologists."
Not "everything". He cites many studies on gender averages, which are backed up. But then, he makes the leap from this data to make several conjectures on morality and solutions which are not backed up by any study.
A small selection of quotes shows the speculative nature of the paper:
"Philosophically, I don't think we should..."
"As soon as we start to moralize an issue, we stop thinking about it in terms of
costs and benefits"
"We’re told by senior leadership that what we’re doing is
both the morally and economically correct thing to do, but without evidence this is just veiled left
ideology"
He insists Google should not moralise some issues, but this is an entirely subjective view. Prominent sociobiologists certainly do not tell people what should be moralised and what should be viewed purely in terms of costs and benefits.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
