navidshrimpo

Do you think the outcome of the war could have been different if not for the drug use?

This is the only reasonable challenge I've read regarding the memo. Thank you.

As a psychologist, it really frustrated me to see nearly unanimous rejection of things that are true at a very fundamental level. But, how society responds to such facts is the more relevant question, and we can't even start to answer it if we deny the questions.

To contrast OP's perspective, bigger companies usually do not expect designers to be artists or programmers. Indie usually necessitates cross-functionality in all roles.

I work at a 200 person company on a 10 person team. We have 3 designers on our game, none of who do anything other than system design and build content (mostly level design). All depends on the genre of game.

That said, you be to bring more to the table than "I have some ideas". In all seriousness, if any educated or impressive person contacted us, was extremely knowledgeable of our genre, and was passionate about learning the business, yet had 0 experience, I'd bring them in for an interview in a heartbeat. Problem is, most people interested in design are more excited to tell you their own ideas than to listen and learn. And a lot of time the ideas make no sense or are entirely impractical from a production standpoint.

That's fair, but if the chocolate ice cream lover's convention is supposed to represent the unrepresentative sexist tech sector, that's a pretty big jump.

A lot of this hinges on the burden of proof. What is the null hypothesis? That gender differences within one particular population (a tech company) are different from the gender differences in another population (those used in peer reviewed studies of gender)?

My takeaway from the memo, and granted I haven't read it in a couple years, was just to stop making assumptions about discrimination, and that it's ok for differences in outcome as long as people are treated fairly.

Blink if you have a cheese dealer and you're just not telling us.