Word: misunderstoodness
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PINKER: First, let’s be clear what the hypothesis is—every one of Summers’ critics has misunderstood it. The hypothesis is, first, that the statistical distributions of men’s and women’s quantitative and spatial abilities are not identical—that the average for men may be a bit higher than the average for women, and that the variance for men might be a bit higher than the variance for women (both implying that there would be a slightly higher proportion of men at the high...
Jeffrey Arnett, a developmental psychologist??at??the???? University of Maryland, favors "emerging adulthood" to describe this new demographic group, and the term is the title of his new book on the subject. His theme is that the twixters are misunderstood. It's too easy to write them off as overgrown children, he argues. Rather, he suggests, they're doing important work to get themselves ready for adulthood. "This is the one time of their lives when they're not responsible for anyone else or to anyone else," Arnett says. "So they have this wonderful freedom to really focus on their...
...ARENA: How Kerry and his party misunderstood the role of religion in American life...
...able to do things that would have been politically impossible before that tragic day, making the argument that “now things were different, so we can do A, B, and C.” While it is becoming increasingly obvious that Bush and the Republicans have fundamentally misunderstood how things are changing, the simple fact is that the “Politics of the New” can and does work...
...analyzed and understood in their own contexts and for their own actions. Neither Israelis nor Americans, nor the Jews who inhabit those categories, benefit from erasing Jewish, Israeli or American specificity. Why lend ourselves to conspiracy theories if we aren’t even benefiting from their grain of misunderstood truth...