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It's disappointing that the author didn't take the opportunity to choose language that didn't provide a distinct slant to the article. An objective tone would have been totally achievable and this would've been marked as a fairly good summation of a rather tumultuous few years for the giant.

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But half-credit for the summary of Demore's views. It was surprisingly even handed about that other than saying he thought women were per se neurotic.

Tonally, it is telling that some personalities had descriptions of their emotional states (from what source?) while others only had their actions and opinions described.

One key misrepresentation:

> In the memo, Damore wrote that hiring practices aimed to increase diversity “can effectively lower the bar” at Google.

Damore wrote that Google "...lowered the bar by reducing the false negative rate." Unsurprisingly, almost every news outlet chopped off the last 6 works of the sentence.

fwiw, "neurotic" in the way he used it was specifically the psychology definition, where it's one of the main personality traits in people. The popular definition doesn't really match this.

There's no way of knowing from the outside, but this seems relevant: "For this article, WIRED spoke with 47 current and former Google employees. Most of them requested anonymity."

Spot on. It was an otherwise very thorough retelling of the Google timeline.

that’s not what wired is about. don’t be disappointed at the author.

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