Thanks.

I checked Damore's Twitter account, and he has not yet made a statement on this, perhaps wisely following his lawyer's advice.

from the NLRB Memo: "[Damore's] statements about immutable traits linked to sex—such as women’s heightened neuroticism and men’s prevalence at the top of the IQ distribution—were discriminatory and constituted sexual harassment, notwithstanding [his] effort to cloak comments with “scientific” references and analysis, and notwithstanding “not all women” disclaimers."

Interesting. The Board completely dismissed the scientific arguments, even going so far as to put quotes around "scientific". They didn't accept that he was making scientific statements at all! It's not clear whether they understood that Damore used "neuroticism" as a specific and uncontroversial psychological term, and not in the folk meaning of "crazy". I'm going to suppose no, since their qualifiers "heightened neuroticism" and "more prone to neuroticism" don't come from Damore's memo, and imply the "crazy" connotation.

I was also surprised that this was the part of memo quoted by the NLRB.

There are others that made me frown way more.

The neuroticism quote is not beyond reproach though.

The big five model has been heavily critiqued, it is not exactly an ironclad scientific caution for Damore's argument.