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Math Journal Kills Research Study After PC Backlash
Breitbart ^ | Tom Ciccota

Posted on 09/11/2018 4:18:16 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

A former professor at the University of Georgia claims that a math journal deleted a statistic study he did on the achievement gap between men and women at similar levels of intelligence after a backlash from board members who found the study too controversial for their politically correct values.

The results of Professor Theodore Hill’s research is not exactly a positive one for men. According to his research, there are more men at the top and the bottom of the intelligence distribution. This phenomenon was first studied by Charles Darwin, who called it the Great Male Variability Hypothesis. While there are more men than women that win the Nobel Peace Prize, there are also more men living on the streets, in prison, and addicted to drugs. Professor Hill’s research aimed to create a theoretical model that explained this trend.

After the research was accepted by the Mathematical Intelligencer, Professor Hill’s co-author, Sergei Tabachnikov, a math professor at Penn State, began to face a backlash from his colleagues. Shortly thereafter, the Mathematical Intelligencer rescinded their acceptance of the research.

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KEYWORDS: academicbias; censorship; groupthink; sciencetrust
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To: ClearCase_guy
If the PC crowd has taken over Math, then the concept of Truth is gone in all fields. It's "whatever", Dude.

What's our plan to take the Universities back - or to destroy their influence?

81 posted on 09/11/2018 9:53:00 AM PDT by GOPJ (Deep State power peaked during the McCain funeral - it's down from here on out.)
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To: I want the USA back

“I’ve noticed that the “scientific” magazines have all gone over to the left, and are no longer scientific magazines, but nerdy versions of the atlantic and the guardian.”

yeah, that started happening nearly two decades ago ... the transition was completed at least a decade ago ... and not just “scientific” magazines, but ALL of them!


82 posted on 09/11/2018 10:01:00 AM PDT by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: ChiMark

“in engineering school few women were enrolled. You cannot be a successful electrical engineer without a higher I.Q. than the average.”

there’s also the major issue of gender differences in the different types of activities that promote self-satisfaction ... as a generalization, females are more attuned to relationships and nurturing, whereas males are more attuned to solitary activities that involve things rather than people ... thus, as a generalization, females find little satisfaction in sitting in front of a computer writing code all day long every day, whereas males find little satisfaction as care-givers ... this from the mouth of Mrs. Catnipman when I asked her about the issue of the lack of female technologists ...


83 posted on 09/11/2018 10:13:46 AM PDT by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: RoosterRedux

Men can more easily focus on one thing to the exclusion of others. Women generally have a number of things they are thinking about at any one time.


84 posted on 09/11/2018 10:42:22 AM PDT by WASCWatch
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