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...percent certainty in any of the claims, but they are reasonable given what we know in the literature,” Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker, whose book “The Blank Slate” provided some of the basis for Summers?? emphasis on “intrinsic aptitude” in his remarks, said in March...
Many academics objected to Summers?? downplay of claims of discrimination which they say disregard decades of research...
...March panel, several female professors sharply criticized Summers?? arguments, weighing the merit of claims of social prejudices and biases that may impede women from reaching many tenured positions in top universities over those of innate gender differences in the sciences...
...others cautioned against dismissal of other evidence that may support Summers?? remarks...
...didn’t invite Larry as a Harvard president per se,” Freeman said in the days following Summers?? speech. “We invited him because he has an extremely powerful and interesting mind. And I think if we had invited him as Harvard president, he would have given us the same type of babble that university presidents give. And thank God we have a president who doesn’t say that...