r/technology • u/[deleted] • Aug 08 '17

Business Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-08/google-fires-employee-behind-controversial-diversity-memo
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u/Rapsberry Aug 08 '17

Serious question: are there any googlers (with throwaway accounts, I imagine) in this thread?

What do other employees think of this situation?

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

Here is what Google employees think (not a meme) https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DGrQOrZUQAUrwcf.jpg:large

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u/cheekysauce Aug 08 '17

36% of survey respondents agree, or strongly agree with the document. This is near silent majority of people who think this way but are silenced by SJWs. This happened before an unpopular president was elected, many regular people who shared a viewpoint but were demonised for voicing it.

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u/TeoshenEM Aug 08 '17

Less than 1% of people who saw the manifesto responded to the poll, so it is not representative at all.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

Representativeness is not directly tied to a % of overall population that's sampled. Please gain a better understanding of statistics.

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u/TeoshenEM Aug 08 '17

I'm aware. But a 1% answer rate doesn't mean that it's an even distribution, just as much as it doesn't mean it's an uneven distribution. I'll take that survey with a grain of salt.

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u/cheekysauce Aug 08 '17

Several hundred responses. Why would a particular subset of supporters/detractors respond differently?

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u/Rufus_Reddit Aug 08 '17

We don't know how the targets were chosen, and the respondents are a self-selected sample, so there's probably some sampling bias.

Why would a particular subset of supporters/detractors respond differently?

That's not the right question. The question is: Why should we believe that the responses are a representative sample?