Word: spatialism
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Professor of Psychology Elizabeth S. Spelke ’71 is renowned for her research on the development of spatial abilities and mathematical skills. In an e-mail to The Crimson yesterday, Spelke shared her thoughts on President Summers’ recent remarks regarding women inthe sciences...
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...
...example, quantitative and spatial skills vary within a gender according to levels of sex hormones. And in samples of gifted students who are given every conceivable encouragement to excel in science and math, far more men than women expressed an interest in pursuing science and math...
Gardner said “Summers is correct that men are overrepresented at both ends of the bell curve in terms of math-science-spatial capabilities, just as they are overrepresented at both ends in terms of many conditions, both positive and pathological...
Multiple universes emerge from so-called superstring theory as well. This still evolving theory is based on the notion that, matter is made, not of particles, but of tiny, vibrating loops of energy called strings. The strings exist in a world of up to 10 spatial dimensions, all but three of which are too minute for us to perceive. Strange though it sounds, most physicists agree that it is the most likely candidate for the long-sought theory of everything that could finally unite relativity and quantum mechanics, the two great but mutually incompatible ideas of 20th century physics...