I have one objection to Kathleen Parker, Wizbank et al, why does Parker refer to tne nag association cows as Womanhood? Women do not object to what Larry Summers said. The nags do. Then the nags object to everything, which why gender feminism is essentially dead.

David

I was pleased to discover that Summers had released the transcript (although it would have been nice to have it sooner).

I thought his remarks were intelligent and perceptive, and really broke very little new ground from the standpoint of studying statistical phenomena. He is saying: Here is what we are observing -- there's no dispute about it -- and here's what statistical science tells us when we observe things like this. He then offers hypotheses that would unquestionably explain what is being observed. He states repeatedly that he hopes either that some of his hypotheses are wrong, or that there are sensible ways to address the phenomena (ways, that is, that wouldn't ruin the very enterprises involved).

Professor Hopkins at MIT is a professional rabble-rouser. She must have been running her Xerox machine overtime the weekend after the conference, spinning out inflammatory press releases. If Harvard doesn't back Summers on this flap, it will lose a very capable leader, and it will never again be possible for Harvard to protect legitimate academic debate -- because the forces of suppression will have sealed their victory.

It is well-established that men have a higher standard deviation in intellectual ability than women and that this plays out at both ends of the Bell Curve; more geniuses, but also more morons.

Of course, raising the Bell Curve as a defense is not going to placate the left.

As Pat said. I thought we’d resolved all this 12 hours after the fuss erupted. Even did a small test (yes, I know, one datum does not prove a theory) with Lynne Keisling, a fantastic economist....there has recently been floated the theory that the ability to understand abstract economic models is similar to the ability to understand maps and topology. One would therefore expect more male than female economists. Lynne is indeed more than 2 standard deviations from the female norm in her ability at spatial relationships. (Her words, not mine).

To be honest, I’m not all that sure what the fuss is about. As Summers noted, we’re not all that surprised at the paucity of white 100 m runners, of the similar of black (more specifically, West African genetically) swimmers, West African long distance runners, the high portion of long distance runners who are East African....These things say nothing at all about anything important between the races (or sexes) as variations within the group are vastly higher than variations between groups. But if you want to get to the last 0.05% of any talent in humans, you’re going to find some groups contain more of them than others.

Sexist racist!

All you need to know about this tempest in a teapot is that no less of a liberal icon than Alan Dershowitz has come to Summers' defense, criticizing the radical leftist professors for their political correctness and cowardice.

The world is truly upside down!

Bill, you forgot xenophobic, culturalist and my current three out of four on Dead White European Male.
Guilty as charged Your Honour.