[bduerst]

So which is it then? You're going from "He didn't say that about women" to "He said that about women but he didn't mean that about his women coworkers" - i.e. no true scotsman.

Even so, Damore did not specifically say that about "non-coworker women", he said it about women.

[sjdhvsi]

One is the distribution of the entire population, the other is a tiny and non representative sample. Take a probability class if that is hard for you to understand.

[aianus]

If :

A) For every woman in the general population who is qualified and wants to work at Google, there are two men (for whatever reasons)

B) the observed ratio at Google is two men per woman

Then, together, A and B are consistent with a belief that the women that currently work at Google are just as qualified and interested as the men.