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by keepper 3224 days ago
Great article.

If anyone who agrees with James Damore's point is motivated to see the reason these arguments are summarily dismissed by many, I recommend reading "the mismeasure of man", by Stephen Jay Gould.

The idea of biological determinism has one fatal flaw... the grouping.

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Stephen Jay Gould was later found out to have mismeasured data he used in that book.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/science/14skull.html?r...

What do you think about Steven Pinker's "Blank Slate". I think he does a good job of refuting Gould's work.