Is Summers Right?

According to an AP report today, Harvard president Larry Summers - villified, condemned, etc. etc. for his statement about possible inherent differences between men and women - could just be right!

Damn! Who knew?

This report goes into - very superficially - a study stating that men have more gray matter - which leads to computational, spacial and pattern analysis abilities, while women have more white matter - this seems to control the number of linkages between brain cells.

While most of this article is dedicated to a professor of "Applied Psychology", Joshua Aronson (New York University), who says it's all crap and the Biologist don't know what they're saying and men and women are equal, yadda; another psychologist, Linda Gottfredson (University of Delaware) makes the most telling statement:

"I think it's an outrage that certain questions - that real, important questions - can't be raised in an academic atmosphere, that research that's well known can't be presented without some sort of hysterical response,"

Do Tell!

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