Are There More Female Computer Programmers at Google?

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Universities are already amongst the most liberal, progressive, tolerant places on the planet. So why aren't there more female computer programmers at google? I don't know. Maybe it is still, in part, an old boys a environment. We've heard story about that. But what's the base rate of how many women are applying for Google jobs? Is it 50? 50? Only 20% of the 50 % of women are hired. You can only hope hat there's no consequence of these programmes. Because people are already doing what they ought to do. They doing what any o liberal or progressive would want them to be doing.

In this wide-ranging conversation Shermer and Nisbett discuss Nisbett’s research showing how people reason, how people should reason, why errors in reasoning occur, how much you can improve reasoning, what kinds of problems are best solved by the conscious mind and what kinds by the unconscious mind, and how we should think about intelligence, along with the controversies over group differences and genetic influences on I.Q. scores and why Charles Murray (The Bell Curve) is wrong in inferring genetic causes for group differences in I.Q.. Nisbett also shows that self-knowledge can be dramatically off-kilter and points to ways to improve it, and demonstrates how different cultures have radically different ways of reasoning and feeling, and how this led to his most famous research showing the difference between Northerners and Southerners in rates of violence, the culture of honor, and a hair-trigger for slights and insults. The two also discuss the #metoo, BLM, antiracism, and woke movements today in context of his psychological research.