Scott Alexander Siskind DEBUNKS the myth that women are kept

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Scott Alexander Siskind DEBUNKS the myth that women are kept out of tech by sexism & DESTROYS the feminazis triggered by the Google anti-diversity manifesto:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exaggerated-differences/

>I highly recommend Freddie deBoer's Why Selection Bias Is The Most Powerful Force In Education. If an educational program shows amazing results, & there's any possible way it's selection bias, it's selection bias.

>I looked into Harvey Mudd's STEM admission numbers, &, sure enough, they admits women at 2.5x the rate as men. So, yeah, it's selection bias.

>Look. If I recruit only gingers, & I admit only gingers, I can get a 100% ginger CS program. That doesn't mean I've proven that gingers are really more interested in CS than everyone else, & it was just discrimination holding them back. It means I've done what every single private school & college does anyway, all the time - finagle with admissions to make myself look good.

>Meanwhile, men make up only 10% of nurses, 20% of new veterinarians, 25% of new psychologists, 25% of new paediatricians, 28% of medical managers, & 42% of new biologists.

>Adam Grant seems like a good person. He is superficially doing everything right. He's not demanding people feel afraid, or saying that everyone who disagrees with him is a fascist. He's just trying to argue the science.

>And I think that, in being wrong about the science, he's (probably unintentionally) giving aid & comfort to the people who have admitted that turning tech into a climate of constant fear & violence is the end goal. He's given them a fig leaf to pretend that they actually care about the science, instead of about power.

>Adam Grant is one of the very few people doing the virtuous thing & trying to debate this without calling for other people's deaths. I'm trying to do the virtuous thing & respond to him. But I worry that, if I fail, doing the virtuous thing isn't going to be possible for too much longer.