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Pro-Science Gets Organized – Page 3.14 — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 15:46:54 +0000

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By: MikeN

MikeN — Fri, 03 Feb 2017 02:21:56 +0000

Even if the girls are performing better than the boys, what Summers said would still hold, where he spoke of(or alluded to, the transcript is not available) the variation being higher for boys.

By: MikeN

MikeN — Fri, 03 Feb 2017 02:18:55 +0000

Take a look at that chart. Do you find it strange that boys are outperforming girls in the Americas and Northern and Western Europe(or at least it’s about even), while the Middle East shows girls doing better? I think it is in line with what I expected based on what Larry Summers said.

Again, why would boys be outperforming girls in these countries?

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Fri, 03 Feb 2017 01:33:56 +0000

In reply to Gregory Laden.

See: http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/06/07/women-are-smarter-than-men-wel/

By: Gregory Laden

Gregory Laden — Fri, 03 Feb 2017 01:32:55 +0000

Mike, women are smarter than men. Well known fact.

By: Wow

Wow — Thu, 02 Feb 2017 23:50:01 +0000

Dick has changed his socks because he’s not going to get away with denying straight up maths, and has had to admit to error, so he’s now reappeared as MikeN to continue the rightwing charge against reality and it’s damn liberal bias.

By: MikeN

MikeN — Thu, 02 Feb 2017 23:13:13 +0000

“So my best guess, to provoke you, of what’s behind all of this is that the largest phenomenon, by far, is the general clash between people’s legitimate family desires and employers’ current desire for high power and high intensity, that in the special case of science and engineering, there are issues of intrinsic aptitude, and particularly of the variability of aptitude, and that those considerations are reinforced by what are in fact lesser factors involving socialization and continuing discrimination. I would like nothing better than to be proved wrong, because I would like nothing better than for these problems to be addressable simply by everybody understanding what they are, and working very hard to address them.”

Is it fair for a scientist to lose his job for making a statement like this?

By: Brainstorms

Brainstorms — Thu, 02 Feb 2017 22:45:14 +0000

Because data gets in the way of The Holy Ideology. Ergo, it, and the accursed Science, must be smitten!

By: dean

dean — Thu, 02 Feb 2017 22:28:19 +0000

No MikeN, it was presented as a done deal, contradicting the current state of research. Asserting something not established, as he did, simply because it seems reasonable, is not valid.

I can see why your ilk believes it though – you have shown yourself to have no regard for the things data actually says.

By: MikeN

MikeN — Thu, 02 Feb 2017 22:12:08 +0000

Larry Summers offered a possible explanation to be studied. He did not declare it as fact. This was unacceptable to the scientists present. The idea that women have different interests and emotions made Nancy Hopkins of MIT ‘physically ill’.