This is interesting. Should we give Google the benefit of the doubt?

kmmeerts · 2011-07-12T20:31:17+00:00

Women aren't stupid. In all these competitions, there's bound to be one that is won by only women.

2011-07-12T18:28:22+00:00

Yes, why not? No one here would have batted an eye if it was all guys.

thingsarebad · 2011-07-12T16:57:18+00:00

Well, they gave the age 13-14 prize to a girl who basically just cooked chicken with different marinades. Meanwhile Luke Taylor from South Africa did the following:

With this in mind, he embarked on a project to help robots understand commands written in natural human language. He limited design and testing to a prototype robot called Tribot and used only a basic set of instructions. The resulting application, SIMPLE, analyzes and translates English sentences into C-code. It also compiles and downloads them, as well as assisting users via prompts that request required information to program the robot.

I wonder which was actually more deserving.

I mean just look at what the boys did versus what the girls did. The girls did very simple experiments, nothing innovative, no new technology, while the boys created new things and tested new hypotheses. http://www.google.com/events/sciencefair/finalists.html

It's just an indication of the stupidity of our culture, where we discourage innovation (what boys do best) and encourage rote memorization for indoctrination purposes (what girls do best). It wouldn't surprise me if the "girl power" thing was a motivator for the judges too, though.

And look, all boys in the 17-18 range except for the one girl, who again did a simple experiment. The boys, for the most part, developed innovative technologies.

You'll also notice that the three girls did projects on carcinogens/environment/cancer which are nice juicy catchphrases today, the kind of crap the general public, and naive little girls, eat up. Meanwhile the boys actually tended to do projects on meaningful, complicated stuff, rather than just focusing on cancer and environment buzz words. Of course, the girls are rewarded for eating up the propaganda.

Sporky023 · 2011-07-12T23:05:50+00:00

"Should we give Google the benefit of the doubt?"
FTFY: "Should we expend energy trying to punish Google for doing this?"

No.
* There are much more important issues for men's rights and health.
* There is a very small chance of success in any kind of fight against Google.
* The actual culpability of Google in this is highly questionable and hard to prove.
* Our time and energy is limited so we must pick our battles.

I recommend instead of spending one more second on this topic, instead focusing on writing a letter to congress about http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/in07q/ten_congressmen_introduce_bill_to_prevent_states/

levelate · 2011-07-12T17:25:11+00:00

setting aside the whole 'benefit of the doubt' thing for now, how do you think even moderate feminists would have reacted had all the winners been male?

then there is thingsarebad's comment that shows clear bias. again, reverse this bias and feminists would be seething with rage.

beema · 2011-07-14T00:45:27+00:00

Yes, you should. The reality of modern science education is that it is biased towards the success of women, there are countless programs to get women into science, none exclusively for men, and at the young ages women are exposed to real science, no opportunities of the same kind exist for men. It's not google's fault that more women did better science.

Eryemil · 2011-07-14T14:50:31+00:00

I agree with their decision.

Kuonji · 2011-07-12T16:36:00+00:00

It's a bit odd. But yes, I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt.

ShakeyBobWillis · 2011-07-13T00:31:27+00:00

NEVER!!! We should be as knee jerk reactionary as the batshit insane fringe feminists and presume that because no men were included in the winners it is because of sexism and discrimination! *HowardDeanScream*

NiceIce · 2011-07-12T21:52:43+00:00

No, we should not. Google is being sexist.

Title	This is interesting. Should we give Google the benefit of the doubt?
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Date	July 12, 2011 4:20 PM UTC (15 years ago)
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