[agarden]

Oh, so you know what he is actually thinking even though he doesn't say it and says things that are contrary to it. I see.

This, too, helps me understand the outrage. Thank you for being honest.

(I do hope the 'thank you' above can be read by people in a calm, snark-less voice. It is genuine. I appreciate Ptacek being forthright. I learned from it. It really does make the thread better and furthers the conversation in a productive way.)

[tptacek]

For what it's worth: your thanks might be intellectually honest, but your summary of my argument is not.

[agarden]

> For what it's worth: your thanks might be intellectually honest, but your summary of my argument is not.

I am very open to being corrected.

When you said, "Damore is smart enough not to come out and say directly that he believes all women to be less qualified", I took it to mean that you think Damore actually believes that all women are unqualified and arguing about populations is a just a smokescreen for what he is really thinking. This is helpful to understand because it means that you don't think the memo is actually about population-level differences and so exploring that argument is a waste of time.

But if you didn't actually mean that, I misunderstood and apologize.