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You may want to revisit Lawrence Summers info. He's the one who said - in math and science - women are stoopid.


21 posted on 02/09/2007 8:02:17 AM PST by Froufrou
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To: Froufrou
You may want to revisit Lawrence Summers info. He's the one who said - in math and science - women are stoopid.

Please stop spreading lies.

27 posted on 02/09/2007 8:04:35 AM PST by subterfuge (Today, Tolerance =greatest virtue;Hypocrisy=worst character defect; Discrimination =worst atrocity)
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To: Froufrou
He's the one who said - in math and science - women are stoopid.

Don't know if that's sarcasm but that's not what he said. He proposed the idea that the differences in high-level achievement in math and sciences between men and women may be due to inherent biological differences. Women in the audience then succumbed to the vapors!

31 posted on 02/09/2007 8:06:36 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Froufrou
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39 posted on 02/09/2007 8:12:45 AM PST by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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"Lawrence Summers ... said - in math and science - ... women are stoopid."

Summers did not say that. He hypothesized, at a session of an academic conference devoted to understanding why there are so few women Ph.D.s in math and *some* sciences, that women and men may have the same *average* aptitude for these subjects but that the *variance* in aptitudes is larger for men than for women. This hypothesis implies that there are fewer women in both the upper tail of the science/math aptitude distribution (presumably, where most professional mathematicians and scientists are located) and in the lower tail of the distribution, where the "stoopid" (in a math/science sense) people are. So, Summers was really saying that males, not females, are disproportionately "stoopid" in these subjects.
59 posted on 02/09/2007 8:41:45 AM PST by riverdawg
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