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> I asked for empirical evidence that these initiatives had led to bad results at Google.

Where is the empirical evidence that these initiatives had led to good results at Google?

And assuming we can measure both the good and bad side effects of such initiatives, does the good outweigh the bad?

The biggest piece of empirical evidence that these initiatives have led to bad results at Google is everything that has happened in the aftermath of the memo being published and found considerable support both in and outside the company.

Had the initiatives been universally good and whose goodness is easy to defend empirically, I would likely have no or at most very few bad results to present to you in response to your question.



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