Two patterns I notice in the arguments (in general on many sites):
* Interest has been conflated with ability. You can see this most prominently with the James Damore diversity memo, which was all about interest, but has been declared to be about ability by almost everyone lambasting him for it.
* Misunderstanding "average" as "all", another common misrepresentation of Damore's diversity memo.
* Interest has been conflated with ability. You can see this most prominently with the James Damore diversity memo, which was all about interest, but has been declared to be about ability by almost everyone lambasting him for it.
* Misunderstanding "average" as "all", another common misrepresentation of Damore's diversity memo.