Word: affection
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...economist, President Summers should recognize the possibility of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Stocks that are predicted to fail often do, and a political candidate can be aided by polls that anticipate her victory. Similarly, if men are expected to outperform women in the sciences, then this belief may affect hiring practices, and men who land high profile jobs with large research budgets will likely outshine women who have fewer resources. At the university level, male science students may be increasingly prejudiced against their female peers when forming study groups, and women looking for their academic niches might be steered toward...
...Harvard female science concentrators that President Summers represents: that they are outliers, exceptions to this trend. But the fact of the matter is, the women Summers should praise will nonetheless have to deal with the repercussions of the sentiment that he expresses. Naturally, genetic predictions do not affect an individual in the sense that his or her genes might defy expectations. Discrimination based on perceived innate qualities of one sex or race does exist, as the racial “sciences” of the not-too-distant past remind...
...both of which he ties to an individual’s biological sex. In doing so he ignores the scholarship that describes ways in which gender expression and our perceptions thereof are constructed as a result of societal practices instead of from genetic blueprints. The suggestion that gender differences affect scientific aptitude is also problematic, as it reinforces a gender hierarchy that gives preference to male behavior over female behavior and fails to recognize other genders altogether. Additionally, these beliefs promote the anti-feminist message that women are able to succeed only to the extent that they behave like...
...moderate drinking group were 20 percent less likely to show signs of cognitive decline during the two years tests were performed. Nondrinkers and heavier drinkers were not found conclusively to be at greater or less at risk of cognitive decline, and the type of alcoholic drink did not affect the risk factor...
SHOULD THE DEATHS OF MORE THAN 150,000 PEOPLE FROM THE TSUNAMI AFFECT OUR IMAGE OF GOD? Actually, our image of God is outmoded anyway, whether the tsunami occurs or not. Religion has become divisive, quarrelsome and idiotic. Religion is the reason we have all this conflict in the world. We have squeezed God into the volume of a body and the span of a lifetime; given God a male identity, an ethnic background; made him a tribal chief and gone to war. Yet people are not ready to forsake their image...