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To: Lane3 who wrote (101074)	2/18/2005 5:54:07 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) of 793574

I would imagine, too, that women mathematicians and US troops were similarly struck by the remarks about them So all offense must be equal, regardless of cause or evidence? Barney Frank demanded evidence from Eason Jordan and got none. Summers introduced his statement as a hypothesis open for discussion, not as a statement of fact as Jordan did. Far from demanding the evidence, the women mathematicians didn't want to discuss the evidence. They just got the vapors and began hyperventilating to the press. They must know if they follow the question at all, that there is a great deal of evidence backing differing paths of mental development and interests between the sexes. The most likely explanation now seems to be that women generally have from infancy a greater interest and competence in inter-personal relations than men do, which naturally might lead them away from purely abstract fields like mathematics towards more people-intensive fields. So any discussion of the evidence would only get in the way of the outraged hyperventilating.

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