I think his position can be better paraphrased as: There are preference differences between the sexes which we might want to take account of when we are organizing and designing technical workplaces. Oddly enough, this was the same position taken by YouTube and Google executives speaking in public shortly afterwards.
Incorrect. Damore's paper was focused on why women _choose_ not to go into tech, not that those women who go into tech are worse at it. Please do not promulgate this misrepresentation.
Come on. What is the point of exaggerating his argument so? There are some holes in it without having to resort to an utter strawman.
The holes in his argument didn’t justify his termination, however. Not sure if some folks are too attached to that outcome, but the accusations against Damore are beyond parody.
I’m not saying he should be fired. I’m saying that it’s a misrepresentation to say that he only claimed that there are differences between the sexes in aggregate.
I wasn't actually speaking about you specifically, but where did Damore "go beyond claiming that there are differences between the sexes in aggregate" and specifically "women are less capable of [Damore's] job"? And how do you square that with the memo's disclaimers that he's speaking about population level differences? I think I've read that thing a dozen times now to try to find anything that resembles the claims Damore is accused of making, and I can never seem to find them...
Would you be so kind as to quote any part of his paper that says this?