Summers' Remarks Supported by Some Experts

AP ^ | 2/27/05 | MATT CRENSON

[HangnJudge]

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

Hippocrates was one of the first to identify this disorder. He noticed that hysteria was common in women and thought it was caused by a displaced uterus. The word hysteria comes from hystera, the Greek word for uterus.
He believed that the myriad symptoms of abdominal pain, palpitations, chest pain, diarrhea, shortness of breath, were caused by the uterus breaking loose and wandering through the body; a condition best treated by giving the uterus it's proper job, getting pregnant.

[bboop]

We have been researching colleges for our son. My husband said Univ of Virginia/ Charlottesville is good and conservative.

[Chode]

is it just me, or are the same people that are all for ward churchill the SAME ones that are baying for Summers head???

[brittmac]

If it did, can I be compensated?

Just kidding. No. It did not happen to me, at least that I noticed. But then again, I'm not bitterly searching for a reason to fail. I did it because I have a (slight) natural propensity for science, and I knew it would eventually be more lucrative for me than would a career in sociology or psych or English.

[freespirited]

Aronson and his colleagues have shown that many of the performance differences between men and women, and also between different races, can be erased with minor adjustments that influence test takers' confidence.

Their work is bizarre. The ETS (the SAT people) tried to replicate it twice and couldn't.

Aronson did the work when he was studying with Claude Steele at Stanford. Steele had a negative version of the same study which he conveniently never bothered to publish and never mentions.