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SPELKE: The field of cognitive development has been testing for gender differences in cognitive abilities and motivations for generations. To make a long story short, motivational differences can be large...but cognitive differences are tiny: far too small to account for the enormous gap between the proportion of capable female students, on one hard, and of female professors, on the other. For example, there’s a slight tendency for girls to have higher verbal skills than boys, but we’d be crazy to take this small difference into account in hiring English professors. The effects...
...rarely makes sense to talk about genetic versus environmental influences,” said Professor of Psychology Daniel T. Gilbert. “The ‘nature versus nurture’ debate is over. Nobody won and the game was called on account of pointlessness,” Gilbert wrote in an e-mail...
University President Lawrence H. Summers wandered off his terra firma of economics and into the tricky realm of behavioral genetics Friday when he speculated that innate ability might account for the underrepresentation of females in the natural sciences. In the two days after Summers’ remarks made national headlines, several Harvard psychologists have weighed in on their validity, with some rallying to Summers’ defense and others lamenting his lack of tact...
Kosslyn said that there is insufficient evidence to support the conclusion that differences in innate abilities account for female underrepresentation in the sciences. But, Kosslyn stressed, Summers only “suggested that this is one hypothesis that should be considered. By definition, a hypothesis remains to be tested...
...sociologists whose research University President Lawrence H. Summers cited at an economics conference Friday said yesterday their findings do not support Summers’ suggestion that “innate differences” may account for the under-representation of women in the sciences...