As I recall, what Summers actually said was that it was an hypothesis worth investigating. He did not say that he favored one outcome or the other.
Paul Brandon Emeritus Professor of Psychology Minnesota State University, Mankato paul.bran...@mnsu.edu On Nov 5, 2010, at 7:17 PM, <sbl...@ubishops.ca> <sbl...@ubishops.ca> wrote: > What, you thought maybe I was gonna talk about politics? This > is a psychology list! > > Dr. Summers was rash enough to speculate, while President of > some obscure place called Havahd, about the finding that few > women are to be found among the highest reaches of the hard > sciences, such as in the Department of Mathematics at Harvard. > > One of his speculations was that there was more innate aptitude > at the high end of the bell curve for men than women. We all > know what happened next. But if you missed it, a concise > summary can be found here: > http://media.swarthmore.edu/bulletin/?p=145 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=6260 or send a blank email to leave-6260-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
