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by sanity31415 1846 days ago
As Damore explains at length in his memo, statistical disparities in representation don't prove discrimination.

For example, 74% of NBA players are black - compared to just 13% of the US population.

Is this disparity evidence that the NBA is discriminating against non-black players?

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If that is the line of thinking, that certain races are naturally predisposed to playing basketball, then I could see why Google took issue with insiuating that certain genders are naturally predisposed to be engineers.
I didn't claim that certain races are naturally predisposed to playing basketball, I just quoted an uncontroversial statistic and asked whether it could only be explained by discrimination.