Summers' Remarks Supported by Some Experts

AP ^ | 2/27/05 | MATT CRENSON

[mathprof]

"I think it's an outrage that certain questions — that real, important questions — can't be raised in an academic atmosphere, that research that's well-known can't be presented without some sort of hysterical response," says Linda S. Gottfredson, a psychologist at the University of Delaware.

[Paul Atreides]

Summers' Remarks Supported by Some Experts

Those experts had better get ready to be blacklisted.

[LA Conservative]

Facts and a well-supported hypothesis have no place in academic discourse when someone's feelings get hurt.
BOO HOO Does anyone know of any decent conservative, secular colleges I can plan to send my kids to?

[JCEccles]

Summers is being ritually disemboweled and quartered by the free speech champions of the left who are only too keen to make con artist Ward Churchill their hero.

[brittmac]

Ha. My husband said that Summers would have been better off going home and beating his wife than opening a frank discussion about something that is at least arguably demonstrable with empirical evidence.

And I happen to be one of those "scientific" women, too...though strangely, I didn't even flinch at his comment. Perhaps it's because I spent the vast majority of my undergrad experience being one of only a handful of women in the physics and calculus classes, and often wondered why myself.

[TheForceOfOne]

Young America's Foundation Recommends Top Ten Conservative Colleges

http://www.yaf.org/2004-2005_top10.asp

[drt1]

That is what it's all about. Facts be damned as well as rational, educated debate about anything that's not completely PC or 'hurts someone's feelings' where that someone is a member of a defined 'Victim' group. Where are all these critics when it comes to the utterances of Ward Churchill?

[Enterprise]

Experts laughingly agree that the only thing known to mankind approaching the speed of light is the wrathful eruption of feminists who are told that males are innately better at math and science than females.

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Perhaps it's because I spent the vast majority of my undergrad experience being one of only a handful of women in the physics and calculus classes, and often wondered why myself.

The implication of the article is that you were under intense social pressure and suffered discrimination. Did that happen to you?

[King Prout]

interesting, revealing perhaps in a way Aronson didn't intend:

"If I had to guess, the real reason for the lack of women in the upper strata is that there's a comfort zone when you walk into a classroom and see a certain number of people like you," Aronson says.
Female physicists and engineers almost always live their entire professional lives outside that comfort zone...

...whereas men tend to care less about such goofy trivialties as "comfort zones" than do women.

[LA Conservative]

I don't see Pepperdine in Malibu on these lists. I know Ken Starr is a fellow there. Is that becuase it is not consistently conservative?

[Osage Orange]

Does anyone know of any decent conservative, secular colleges I can plan to send my kids to?

I'd certainly look into Hillsdale College.........

[NorCalRepub]

no kidding.....in grad school my thesis advisor used to tell a great joke.....he was the psychometric statistical expert for a professor at UC that was trying to show there really are IQ differences in the races......he used to call up Dr. Alf and say," Robert, I've got some good date over here but I don't know why there are blacks and Hispanics turning my car over in the parking lot"....haha.....even if he could prove it, the hysterics and naysayers would crucify him.......

[TheForceOfOne]

Oh, I don't know, just trying to help a fellow FReeper when I can. I'm sure the list is longer on other researcher's lists.

[trebb]

Heck - they had some minor studies on the topic in the "50s and '60s; it's not like the guy invented something to antagonize the emotional cripples with.

[avitot]

of course what Summers touched on is well established, but lets call political correctness what it is-LIBERAL FASCISM.

[ozzymandus]

Don't try to confuse the feminazis with a lot of facts.

[lostlakehiker]

You could do worse than Texas A&M University. Check it out.

[lepton]

that research that's well-known can't be presented without some sort of hysterical response

what a choice of words. "Hysterical" means a womanly insanity - hence, Hysterectomy.

[HangnJudge]

A good, solid engineering school might be recommended
I went to Georgia Tech
No tolerance for intellectual flabbiness
Solid scientific grounding
will flunk you if you don't measure up