Women are inferior....

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Women are inferior....

... "no they are not". A discussion on gender inequalities in the hard-sciences by two prominent harvard psychologists.
www.edge.org

It's really long, and they cite a lotta psych work, but I found it pretty interesting. If you don't want to read, but have 2 hours to kill, they have a 300 meg video of the debate also.

(cross posted to the brain village, but I figure there are a lotta oppinionated women in here).

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that's one heckova long article yaar!!!! but is interesting all the same :)

What's this about lotas????

but its interesting stuff no doubt--and even more interesting b/c it seems to dispel alot more of the broader stereotypes--since the two are arguing over a small sliver of difference b/n male and females, and not absolute differences in the ability to reason etc.

still--at its most extreme..the two seem to be arguing over pretty minute differences..but i think i can see spelke's point about the SAT's--it depends on what skills you decide to focus on, that make the test either pro-boy, or pro-girl..and if you took pinker's assertion a bit further..it would also imply that there are innate differences in the different race's ability to succeed (of course, maybe without the other additional types of supporting evidence pinker gives)...my problem is that, i find spelke's type of evidence easier to asses, b/c it is 'everyday sorta stuff', pinker's evidence is alot more technical, and i just don't know how much weight to give it vs the fact that there have been other tests that have come out otherwise (as spelke points out)

i guess they're not so good at it--if you buy pinker's interpretation. :-P

If you read the article (or watched the movie), you'd realize I wasn't calling your gender lotas. Lotas require complex visio-spatial and geometric reasoning which women aren't so good at.

i guess we're opinionated lotas

did you just refer to us as lotas?

interesting stuff..will read and respond.

i had that coming, huh :-P

i think u mean "opinionated." :oP

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