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He said Google has '[h]iring practices which can effectively lower the bar for “diversity” candidates by decreasing the false negative rate', created in part because "humans are generally biased towards protecting females".

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The most direct reading of his claim is that they're hiring unqualified women. He would presumably be happy with a larger mix of female colleagues if he felt standards weren't being lowered.

Exactly. To wit: he thinks Google is hiring too many women. Yikes. Yeah, that'll get you fired, folks.

...which is true and even google admits they do so to increase female count?

I'm pretty sure Google does not in fact "admit they do [anything] to increase female count".

Oh they do, a lot:

https://www.blog.google/topics/diversity/focusing-on-diversi...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/tech-firms-borrow-football-play...

https://www.google.com/diversity/

https://qz.com/604723/when-google-increased-paid-maternity-l...

http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/29/technology/google-diversity-...

The claim made is that they "decreased the false negative rate".

Google has long prided itself on rejecting large numbers of qualified candidates. Since decreasing the false-negative rate inherently means "hire a greater quantity of qualified candidates", I fail to see how the bar was lowered.

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