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Sundar Pichai's reaction was also flawed...he mistook 'neuroticism' for 'neurotic' and asserted the memo called women neurotic.

https://medium.com/@100millionbooks/2-things-about-that-goog...

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Being neurotic is hardly an insult in the first place, it's a reversible state of mind. But searching "google + neurotic" showed that a significant number of news outlets made the same convenient mistake as Sundar Pichai. It's not like their reader base would be aware of the actual definition or bother to look it up. It sounds like a bad word so it is.

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