Well...Thus for that good old "Harvard Try" anyway.
Posted on 10/20/2007 5:40:20 PM PDT by neverdem
THE DEBATE over women's place in science, which proved to be the downfall of Harvard President Lawrence Summers after he suggested that male preeminence in the field could be due at least partly to biological traits and personal choices, remains a lightning rod for controversy. Earlier this month, the subject was tackled in two different symposiums - one at Harvard, the other at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington-based right-of-center think tank.
Both events focused on the National Academy of Sciences report issued last fall by an almost all-female NAS committee. The report takes the position that any existing cognitive gender differences are irrelevant to success in science and engineering, and that women in these fields continue to be held back by pervasive gender biases and institutional barriers. This viewpoint was summed up at the Harvard symposium by one of the report's coauthors, Maria Zuber, professor of geophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Zuber asserted that the committee had extensively reviewed the literature on gender differences. But the review in the report itself is strikingly tendentious, glossing over or dismissing unfavorable findings while emphasizing studies in tune with the report's focus on "bias and barriers."
Some of Zuber's assertions at the symposium raised obvious questions. Thus, she suggested that the small pool of people who can succeed at high-level scientific work is so different in mental traits from the general population that gender differences pale in comparison. Then is it possible that in this pool, males outnumber females by a large margin (as they do, for instance, among people with autism)? It is well known that while sex differences in performance on math tests are very small on average, males cluster disproportionately at the top.
Discussing the male advantage in spatial analysis, Zuber noted that, compared with boys, girls...
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math is hard!
Leftists recoil from the truth like they recoil from the cross. (just one of the things that they have in common with vampires) And, female leftists usually go faint, become short of breath and cry, while they’re recoiling.
You got that right!
The few female geophysicists, I met in the field were useless at running noise spreads, up-hole times or doing quality control on raw data.
“math is hard!”
There were a total of two females in my calculus and physics classes. The same two.
I should have added that one of the girls was clearly the stand-out in our class. She rocked at mathematics.
God made us all with a purpose. Some women are much smarter then men. Vice versa. All cultures are not equal.
But we are all one in Jesus Christ.
Aptitude is not wisdom. Neither is intellect.
The beginning of Wisdom is a Fear of the Lord.
Proverbs 1:1
The American Society of Bioethics and Humanities has been meeting this week in Washington DC and a couple of the women excited the “Neuroethics affinity group” with the announcement that they were beginning a study of a “new” field: the ethics of study and reporting on sex differences in neuroanatomy.
I guess that they have to keep on keepin’ on to find their niche, but good grief. How about if it’s true, you report it and if it’s not don’t report it. If it’s too touchy to report then maybe you don’t need to do the research in the first place.
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It may well be that
the entire future of all humankind
may well hinge on,
during this new 21st Century,
our finally freeing all the
women of the world to be...
all that they already are
in GOD’s Eyes...
and all that they can be while
here on the Earth..?
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The socialists, radical environmentalists and Islam are really death cults.
FPL Grabs the Lead in Renewable Power
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Once again the left is certain that inequality of outcomes MUST be the result of discrimination. Any evidence to the contrary is dismissed outright as evidence of said discrimination.
And once again, the only solution is for government to intimidate people into doing “the right thing.”
This should go down in textbooks as a classic example of how tyranny grows.
Well...Thus for that good old "Harvard Try" anyway.
i love intelligent women, especially if they look great and can shoot.
Cheers!
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