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Lindsley Professor of Psychology Stephen M. Kosslyn explained in an e-mail yesterday that “there are two types of factors that could allow innate characteristics to explain whether a person (male or female) chooses a career in science, namely ‘indirect’ and ‘direct...
...Science is combative,” Kosslyn wrote. “People argue aggressively and get into intense disputes...
...biological factors determine comfort level in combative situations, then gender differences could partially explain the underrepresentation of females in elite academic science, Kosslyn said. But he noted that “one’s comfort level in combative situations might have nothing to do with innate factors...but instead might reflect socialization...
...direct” influences on academic achievement, Kosslyn said that “solid evidence” supports the hypothesis that men may have stronger spatial abilities while females may have stronger verbal abilities. Even so, Kosslyn said, “some women will be better than some men at spatial abilities, and some men will be better than some women at verbal abilities...
...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...