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We’re so enamored of our big name professors and the prospect of respectable jobs after we fly the Cambridge coop that we’ve lost something intrinsic to our youth. We’ve stopped questioning authority. In fact, we follow it blindly. We care more...
Summers’s remarks last night are his latest attempt at making amends following his controversial comments to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in January. The president had said that the shortage of women in scientific fields was more the result of variances in ?...
The discussion came about two months after University President Lawrence H. Summers suggested in Jan. 14 remarks at a National Bureau of Economics Research conference that “issues of intrinsic aptitude” might be responsible for the underrepresentation of female scientists. The panelists jokingly referred to Summers?...
Professor of Psychology Elizabeth S. Spelke disputed the findings of various studies used to support arguments for innate gender differences in cognition. She directed particularly vehement criticisms at Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker, whose book The Blank Slate formed the basis for some of Summers’ remarks...
Most of the last thirty minutes of yesterday’s discussion concerned the fallout from Summers’ January remarks on differences in “intrinsic aptitude” in science between men and women, for which he has since apologized.