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To: LindyBill who wrote (161635)	3/23/2006 9:34:47 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 793990

It's like females. Larry Summers got into trouble for pointing out that women don't in fact do as well as men in hard stuff [maths, physics]: <Murrey's book didn't tell us anything new about the research. It just put it together in one book and publicized it. Everything he wrote was well known in Academia. But it was the "dirty little secret" you were not allowed to talk about. Couldn't do that. Wouldn't be PC.> Essentially, we only need to know that women's brains grow to adulthood on average about 3 years younger than men's. Since the ability to handle things is a function of when they are experienced, and childhood is the time for things to be hardwired, after puberty it's too late, it's pretty obvious that females will be very different from males in that respect alone, let alone any other differences such as their missing a Y chromosome, whatever that does, and being short of/unpolluted by [take your pick] testosterone [relatively]. What's hilarious is that women will give an example of a woman who can do maths or physics [to some decent level], as though that proves the proposition wrong, and it merely confirms their mathematical illiteracy. CB knows not to argue with the theory [being barely able to count]. Of course some men will point out the same thing [especially if they have a daughter who can count], but it's not so much fun to taunt them. What should be concluded, which I have never seen, other than in my excellent rants, is that education should be individually tuned and if not individually, then at least by developmental timing, meaning females earlier than males [unless they are late bloomers]. Females are denied an education as good as males get, though they do better overall in completing university level studies. Males get turned off education in greater numbers. But those who don't, go on to el primo success more than women. Mqurice