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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...
...said Summers’ suggestion that this apparent gender gap accounts for the under-representation of females in science and engineering is “too simplistic...
...currently answers to Deputy Dean O’Brien) suggests better coordination between the Houses and the Yard. Even if the College does not implement Yale-style freshman housing assignments—which we firmly oppose—this administrative change could be useful in working to bridge the gap between freshmen and upperclassmen. Under the current structure of anachronistic proctors and irregular faculty advising assignments, guidance for freshman is decidedly hit or miss—with the misses accounting for an unacceptable majority. The appointment of Thomas A. Dingman ’67 as the new dean of freshman...
...last night, Summers stressed that he only cited Xie and Shauman’s research as evidence that females are underrepresnted among the top 5 percent of test-takers on standardized assessments. Summers said the evidence for his speculative hypothesis that biological differences may partially account for this gender gap comes instead from scholars cited in Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker’s bestselling 2002 book The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature...
...named person of the Year is beyond me. The man is an intellectual midget. His presidency has been marked by the full-scale manipulation of reality at all levels. The person responsible for that is political operative Rove, not Bush, who is a bumbling spokesman. To fill the gap left by the disappearance of the Soviet Union, the Administration created a new enemy, terrorism. But achieving that goal has only strengthened U.S. adversaries, especially al-Qaeda. Eventually, reality will come back with a vengeance, but it is the successors to the Bush Administration who will have to deal with...