Great article in Science this week: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6219/262.short
The more the practitioners of an academic field agree that "Being a top scholar of [discipline] requires a special aptitude that just can’t be taught", the less successful women and african americans are in the field, as measured by the percentage of PhD's graduated. Measured across all disciplines and in competition with three other hypotheses. -- rec --
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