The link to the personal site was a byproduct of what he described as a "social experiment" in which he published the James Damore memo on his office door, and was offended that students reported him to the dean for acting to create a hostile work environment, rather than engage with him directly about the scientific merits of Damore's memo.
Seems like a strange course of action. What if someone just wants to come and see you and not debate the scientific merits of Damore's memo? The man is a computer science professor, after all. I don't know about "hostile work environment" but it seems needlessly antagonistic to me.
> What if someone just wants to come and see you and not debate the scientific merits of Damore's memo?
How about ignore it and not report it to the dean?
The observations made in Damore's memo are rather anodyne (and essentially correct). The folks making a scene about it are contributing to a hostile environment.
If you want scientific debate, you seek studies and seek people who study same area.
Manifest on doors (no matter what manifest) to me sound like a statement of conviction and thus pointless to debate. Partly as dont feed the trolls and partly that it is unreasonable to expect such person to listen.
So he was offended and needed a safe space for his logorrhoea, I see...
I did read the entire website (didn't mean to, it was an accident, one that I resent). The guy's basically full of himself and bordering on alt-right if not just that.
If you hover his photo on his homepage, it has a quote from a climate change denier. The whole thing is like a red flag wholesaler shop.
afavour|4 years ago
parenwielder|4 years ago
lliamander|4 years ago
How about ignore it and not report it to the dean?
The observations made in Damore's memo are rather anodyne (and essentially correct). The folks making a scene about it are contributing to a hostile environment.
watwut|4 years ago
Manifest on doors (no matter what manifest) to me sound like a statement of conviction and thus pointless to debate. Partly as dont feed the trolls and partly that it is unreasonable to expect such person to listen.
lliamander|4 years ago
2) Damore's memo does cite scientific research
3) at least some experts in the fields of psychometrics and sex differences believed the memo to be substantively correct
4) Trying to get someone fired for holding beliefs that are well within the scientific mainstream is the antithesis of a good academic environment.
unknown|4 years ago
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_pfxa|4 years ago
I did read the entire website (didn't mean to, it was an accident, one that I resent). The guy's basically full of himself and bordering on alt-right if not just that.
If you hover his photo on his homepage, it has a quote from a climate change denier. The whole thing is like a red flag wholesaler shop.