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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (44833)	1/16/2004 9:12:38 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

<Women have just as much ability to learn and apply mathematics as men do. //That's also been my experience..//<> KC. That's a good example of how useless random experience, and data lacking scientific veracity, can be. How many women was that? How many men? What was the standard deviation in IQs and all that stuff needed to detail your studies. Are you sure you aren't just adopting the politically correct philosophies which surround you all day every day which say that men and women are as good as each other; an androgynous egalitarianism? We could count actual, live, mathematicians of professorial or PhD status and see how many are men and how many are women. We could count just those in the age 20 to 35 age group to reduce the cultural bias of the older age groups when women were allegedly actively discouraged from tertiary education and especially from physics, maths and the like. Though even in the 1960s, there was no discouragement that I was aware of. One of the few gender-related things I remember in regard to maths was way back part way through 1963 and Georgina Reynolds joined our class having decided to drop Latin, and Miss Gee, the deputy principal, came into our class to introduce her and told us that she would show us how to do maths. You wanna bet, thought I! Maths being my specialty. Females did maths if they wanted to and there was no disusasion of them. I'll ask Google if it has a head count of maths brains by gender. Mqurice