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To: sphinx
P.S. I do not travel much in scientific circles, but I am acquainted with one very distinguished member of the National Academy of Sciences who will privately admit that he believes the IQ tests, but he then immediately acknowledges that he would never say so publicly. Being a good Democrat, he staunchly declines to consider why this is a problem. His field is not biology or any form of cognitive studies, so he has room to dodge. I have tried in vain to get him to understand that if you are in history, anthropology, sociology, education, or any of the public policy related fields, the issue is significant.

To take one of the least explosive issues: there is a great deal of overlap on mental and behavioral dimensions between men and women, and there are outliers in both sexes. But in terms of averages across large groups, men and women have (slightly) different aptitudes and significantly different interests and priorities (e.g. desires regarding work-life balance, orientation towards children, risk tolerance, job preferences). Men and women, on average over large groups, tend to make different choices, and while some of this is likely due to social conditioning, some of it is almost certainly biologically based. Saying this, however, is a likely career killer at many universities and, of course, at Google. So people who know better are silent and, when ritual expressions of fealty to the party line are demanded in public, they lie.

33 posted on 08/02/2019 9:29:23 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: sphinx
To take one of the least explosive issues: there is a great deal of overlap on mental and behavioral dimensions between men and women, and there are outliers in both sexes. But in terms of averages across large groups, men and women have (slightly) different aptitudes and significantly different interests and priorities (e.g. desires regarding work-life balance, orientation towards children, risk tolerance, job preferences).

This is how Larry Summers lost his job as President of Harvard. Which took some doing, because IIRC, when he got his PhD, he was the youngest person ever to have been granted a PhD by Harvard.

It it long past time for a purge of the liberals and Marxists from all areas of life.

46 posted on 08/02/2019 11:46:08 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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Very well stated.


77 posted on 08/03/2019 1:13:02 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("I ain't denyin' the women are foolish. The Good Lord made 'em to match the men.")
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