My family is a living proof of this. I have 2 sisters, I was a boy, and yet, I am the only programmer. GW-BASIC’s evil plan with its marketing oriented towards me, its black-and-white text, and their 10 20 30 LIST instructions, or the white reference book of the Amstrad 8086 in English which, as a French boy of 7, was incredibly opaque (which I still read and memorized by heart), those were all directed towards me.
Or perhaps it is time to admit that talks which are drawing inferences are just talks, and while my sisters were asking dads to draw horses, I was asking dad to offer me a drawing of a powerpoint, because things that plug to each other fascinated me.
If sex creates differences in the body, it is only stunning ideology that draws us to affirm it creates no difference in average in the brain, and that everything is socially constr... No, I’m not James Damore.
I was on a flight a few years ago while wearing a software company branded hoodie. The person next to me was very excited, since he was trying to get his son to like computers. He bought his son all these toys, read him books, and did activities to encourage an interest in software. His son was six.
I asked if he had other children. He had a daughter who was eight. He was not doing the same things for her.
Enrollment among women in computer science was growing steadily until the 80s, when it turned around and declined. Our biology has not changed during that time frame. And the core job of a software engineer hasn't really changed at that time. Other engineering disciplines did not experience the same change in trajectory. Innate biological preferences have a hard time explaining the unique trajectory experienced in software.
You don't just need to demonstrate that there exist differences in the brain between men and women, but that the specific differences lead to the observed population-wide outcomes.
Or perhaps it is time to admit that talks which are drawing inferences are just talks, and while my sisters were asking dads to draw horses, I was asking dad to offer me a drawing of a powerpoint, because things that plug to each other fascinated me.
If sex creates differences in the body, it is only stunning ideology that draws us to affirm it creates no difference in average in the brain, and that everything is socially constr... No, I’m not James Damore.