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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (102278)2/26/2005 12:58:28 PM
From: kech  Read Replies (2) of 793926
 
He is not apologizing because he is wrong. He is apologizing because he is president of Harvard and people like Clinton, Daniel Gergen and others are advising him to apologize as a form crisis management.

With all the science out about gender differences in aptitude for spatial concepts and other cognition differences it is certainly a possible hypothesis that this could have something to do with performance differences. These are the skills needed for geometry and calculus. How much, when, under what circumstances any cognition differences might cause women to drop out of math are all further questions that people should be able to ask. These are questions that might end up actually helping educators teach young women better. Shut down the debate and these improvements may not take place.
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