Word: pinkering
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...Pinker, whom Summers recruited to Harvard last year, cited evidence arguing that male superiority in skills like mental object rotation and problem solving provides a biological basis for the argument that men are more talented at math and science...
Prefacing his comments by saying that he was a feminist, Pinker stressed the importance of distinguishing between the moral and empirical claims about gender differences...
Though Spelke attacked his yardstick indicator—the SAT mathematics examinations—Pinker maintained that “the tests are very good. They have an enormous amount of predictive power...
...Pinker also noted that men and women tend to have different priorities in life; men seek status and money, while women look more for interpersonal relationships...
...What this means is that there are slightly more men than women who don’t care whether or not they have a life,” Pinker said...