tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post7406996645442260760..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Selective PressureAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-64584722889034099702009-03-10T14:41:00.000-04:002009-03-10T14:41:00.000-04:00I would like my tombstone to read "More Charming T...I would like my tombstone to read "More Charming Than Irritating. He Throve."Ben Wymanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12491745981357751416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-61935051381518636182009-03-05T19:45:00.000-05:002009-03-05T19:45:00.000-05:00As part of becoming a teacher, a second and since...As part of becoming a teacher, a second and since-abandoned second career, I attended a guest lecture by a (female) education professor. She showed a film that claimed to show that females get the short end of the stick in science. As my sister and mother had master’s degrees respectively in engineering and biology, I was somewhat skeptical. <BR/><BR/>The education professor did not help her case with this introduction: “ My father was a physician. My brother was a physician. And here I am, in Education.” ( My suggestion: compare SAT scores. One has to have limited ability in critical thinking to accept all the conjectures masquerading as fact in the Education field.)<BR/><BR/>In my search to find studies to refute that brain-dead ed school prof, I found out the same that you did. Males have more variation. More geniuses, more mentally retarded. <BR/><BR/>My sister’s best friend from high school could not make the same claim as the ed school prof, as both her parents were MDs. In research for her doctoral dissertation, my sister’s friend found out that there was a genetic component to the group differences in math scores between males and females. Not surprisingly, she found it impossible to get a faculty position with such a politically incorrect dissertation.<BR/><BR/>The trend to reduce or eliminate recess in elementary school, with the aim to have them learn even more, will hurt boys more than girls, as boys have a greater need to let their yayas out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-69422399836297514922009-03-04T09:04:00.000-05:002009-03-04T09:04:00.000-05:00Ah sports statistics as a method of getting throug...Ah sports statistics as a method of getting through life. My father has always used this, and now my husband does. He does health insurance sales and I really amazed how many doors being able to rattle of some good stats opens for him. <BR/><BR/>There's got to be some sort of signaling going on there....because this statistics-speak seems to conjure a lot more trust between men than is totally rational.bs kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02871717971078952304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-21275373108790017752009-03-03T21:10:00.000-05:002009-03-03T21:10:00.000-05:00What a pack of lies! Everybody knows boys and girl...What a pack of lies! Everybody knows boys and girls are the same so they have to be treated the same!<BR/><BR/><I>You</I> need <B>The Larry Summers Treatment</B>!<BR/><BR/>;-)ELChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09755716607466641949noreply@blogger.com