To be clear: If that quora post had been a dispassionate refutation, or even just a nest of links to directly pertinent scientific studies - I'd have believed the author. Or at least declared myself neutral in the debate, as it is outside my area of expertise.

But an article that sleazy and loaded with weasel words and underhanded rhetorical tactics, that dances that much around the points being discussed - no one who has the facts on their side argues like that. Reading that post from beginning to end actually did more to convince me Damore was right than any other piece of writing I've seen thus far on the subject.

As to your links:

Read what you're trying to cite before blinding citing it.

Here is some of the titles of the papers you just linked to:

No relationship between prenatal androgen exposure and autistic traits

The origins of agriculture: Population growth during a period of declining health

Human Health and the Neolithic Revolution: an Overview of Impacts of the Agricultural Transition on Oral Health, Epidemiology, and the Human Body

Power Increases Infidelity Among Men and Women

Cuckolded Fathers Rare in Human Populations

As I said, basically pure none sense. The quora post is trying to blindside people with number of sources, to hide the fact they have absolutely no quality in sources.

Indeed, even the most directly pertinent link didn't really talk about the core issues raised in the memo. It instead discussed github pull requests vs. gender, which while far more related to the subject at hand than autistic dentistry (it is about sexism and the tech community), does not actually address the specific points raised by Damore's letter or support the arguments she was trying to make.

Incidentally, that study is nicely debunked here:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/02/12/before-you-get-too-exci...