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[AUDIO FIXED] The Truth Cannot be Sexist - Steven Pinker on the biology of sex differences

An excerpt of the 2005 Harvard debate in which Steven Pinker gives his prepared case on biological sex differences and the under-representation of women in science. It covers cross-cultural patterns in preferences and abilities and the overlap between male and female distributions.

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Why HN readers recommended it

Pointed to repeatedly in gender-in-tech threads, especially around the Google memo, as a science-based treatment of sex differences.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Gravitahn
Topic
sex differences in science
Format
talk
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
6
HN mentions in dataset
14
Recommendation years in dataset
2017–2018

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.

  • > The "scientific consensus" is that women are inherently genetically hard-coded to not be as good at or interested in computer programming? I did not say that, did I? The scientific consensus is that there are biological differences that have an influence on job fit …

    onli on Hacker News · 2017-08
    In Why it may be illegal for Google to punish that engineer over his now viral memo

  • If you want to see to which points science does have something to say, you might be interested in watching [VIDEO] . This presentation by Steven Pinker got posted yesterday in one of the other comment threads, and I found it to be an excellent …

    onli on Hacker News · 2017-08
    In Google Can't Seem to Tolerate Diversity

  • Whenever this comes up, I like to mention this video [0]. The video speaks for itself, but generally it advances the position that human behavior and preferences are a distribution, and the distributions for women are in some cases different from the distributions for men …

    ac2018-02-14 on Hacker News · 2018-02
    In Sex and STEM: Stubborn Facts and Stubborn Ideologies

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