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What he has accomplished as president—the biggest expansion of low-income aid since the GI Bill, the Crimson Summer Academy to prepare disadvantaged high school students for college, the greatest investments in science and technology ever, recruiting extraordinary new faculty like Louis Menand and Steven Pinker, expanding study abroad, defending affirmative action, making ours a “Green Campus”—all of that is irrelevant to the one-third of professors (of one out of Harvard’s nine faculties) that voted to kick the bastard when he?...
...Steven A. Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology...
What Summers said at the conference of the National Bureau of Economic Research caused a firestorm, and he has said repeatedly that his words were not well chosen. The Crimson some weeks ago included statements from prominent psychologists on the topic of gender. Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker suggested that there was adequate evidence to take seriously the hypothesis that men’s and women’s distributions of quantitative and spatial abilities may not be identical. Berkman Professor of Psychology Elizabeth Spelke was far more critical, arguing that gender differences are negligible, that it therefore...
Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker said that Summers’ interpretation is a valid claim...
...There’s not a hundred percent certainty in any of the claims, but they are reasonable given what we know in the literature,” Pinker said...