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> It also explains why the professors’ kids are a disproportionate fraction of the National Merit Finalists in a college town. […] But those kids, although sma

> It also explains why the professors’ kids are a disproportionate fraction of the National Merit Finalists in a college town. […] But those kids, although smarter than average, usually aren’t as smart as their *fathers*: partly because their *mothers* typically aren’t theoretical physicists, partly because of regression towards the mean. Wow, this guy is … not concerned with political correctness/not considering whether or not the college professors worth mentioning are guaranteed to be male.

rkk3 5y ago
Ironic since their department, Anthropology, is one of the most politically-correct and female academic disciplines.
- LogonType10 5y ago
  Maybe they don't think anthropologists have high IQ.
jyscao 5y ago
Well, the context of your quoted statement was provided in the paragraph above: > Reminds me of the fact that Los Alamos High School has the highest test scores in New Mexico. He's referring specifically to the physicists working on the Manhattan project, who were definitely predominantly male.
- Gregaros 5y ago
  That’s not right, either, since he is speaking in the present tense and comparing his current local high school’s attempts to emulate what Los Alamos high currently does: > Reminds me of the fact that Los Alamos High School has the highest test scores in New Mexico. Our local high school tried copying their schedule, in search of the secret. Didn’t work. I know of an approach that would, but it takes about fifteen years.
  - jyscao 5y ago
    I think you're simply reading too much into his imprecise usage of grammatical tense. "Our local high school" probably refers to when he was in high school himself decades ago, being born in 1953, that would put those years right around the time period when children of Manhattan Project physicists have demonstrated their academic talent. Given the fact that Los Alamos High School is not academically renowned in the current day, but was so half a century back, this is the only context in which his series of statements make any sense.

rkk3 5y ago

Ironic since their department, Anthropology, is one of the most politically-correct and female academic disciplines.

LogonType10 5y ago
Maybe they don't think anthropologists have high IQ.

jyscao 5y ago

Well, the context of your quoted statement was provided in the paragraph above: > Reminds me of the fact that Los Alamos High School has the highest test scores in New Mexico. He's referring specifically to the physicists working on the Manhattan project, who were definitely predominantly male.

Gregaros 5y ago
That’s not right, either, since he is speaking in the present tense and comparing his current local high school’s attempts to emulate what Los Alamos high currently does: > Reminds me of the fact that Los Alamos High School has the highest test scores in New Mexico. Our local high school tried copying their schedule, in search of the secret. Didn’t work. I know of an approach that would, but it takes about fifteen years.
- jyscao 5y ago
  I think you're simply reading too much into his imprecise usage of grammatical tense. "Our local high school" probably refers to when he was in high school himself decades ago, being born in 1953, that would put those years right around the time period when children of Manhattan Project physicists have demonstrated their academic talent. Given the fact that Los Alamos High School is not academically renowned in the current day, but was so half a century back, this is the only context in which his series of statements make any sense.