User explains why the Google Manifesto's scientific evidence is biased and inconclusive due to assumptions made by the author and incorrect application of proper scientific method

Feel free to correct how I'm reading what you're writing

The discussion we're having here isn't about the whole paper (although it seems like people want to just keep throwing in their random opinions about it whenever they get the chance). The discussion we're (supposed) to be having here is about the comment linked to above. That comment was about one example from the entire paper, specifically one study and the finding that women were more interested in "people rather than things".

That one section is really the heart of the argument he was making, and I was specifically commenting above about how he used research to support specific conclusions there.

You clearly want to talk about the entire memo and what his intentions were and where his suggestions were reasonable or not, etc. That's not what I was discussing, it's not what this thread was about at all. The fact that you keep wanting to drag in other stuff that's related to prove points that I'm not talking about, so you can tell me I'm wrong about them is frustrating.

I'm making definitive statements on a very narrow point, one study he cited and a few claims. You're then saying that if you take my statements and apply them very broadly that they're too harsh. I agree with you, if that's what I was doing, it would be too harsh. Which is why I didn't do that, and why I wish you'd stop telling me I did.

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