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“For many traits, males show greater variability than females” - first sentence in the paper’s abstract. What “many traits” do you think are being referenced?
by jmpman 7y ago
“For many traits, males show greater variability than females” - first sentence in the paper’s abstract.
What “many traits” do you think are being referenced?
I’ve worked with many female engineers who are unquestionably smarter than I am. I’m married to one. Of course we are talking population-level differences, and I’m not suggesting that women shouldn’t be included in any table based upon meritocracy.
That doesn’t negate the fact that a president of Harvard was forced to step down for having a hypothesis that there could possibly be a gender difference explained by variance. Now that his hypothesis has a glimmer of possibly being supported by research, again, it continues to be vilified.
I’m asking for a world where a scientist can freely propose a hypothesis and not be forced to step down. Anything else is driving the anti-enlightenment.
Lawrence Summers is the Galileo of our time.
- fiihddzfg 7y ago1. Summers is not a neuroscientist. He is an economist, and he is ill equipped to make any meaningful claims about this. 2. Proposing a hypothesis is not doing science. Science would involve actually testing a hypothesis by applying rigorous and reliable methods that suit the phenomenon being investigated, verifying the validity of results, interpreting the results and having the results reviewed by peer experts. 3. Summers’ remarks were merely pulled out of his ass and we’re in no way informed by any scientific process. 4. He has crucially undermined the work of countless women working as scientists at Harvard, and therefore failed in his duties as leader of that world class institution. 4. He resigned as a result of a no-confidence vote from the faculty (i.e. all the smart people who work at Harvard), which underscores how shitty he was at his job and how dumb his remarks were. > Lawrence Summers is the Galileo of our time. 5. lol