Men’s and Women’s Brains Appear to Age Differently

Re:Men’s and Women’s Brains Appear to Age Differently by GFK_of_xmaspast on Sunday November 29, 2015 @11:53AM (#10645126)

There was a big followup article in the "Notices of the American Mathematical Society" that actually looked at the numbers and concluded Summers was not supported by the data.

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Re:Men’s and Women’s Brains Appear to Age Differently by hajile on Sunday November 29, 2015 @12:32PM (#10645293)

Here are the only two articles I can find mentioning Larry Summers

http://www.ams.org/notices/200810/fea-gallian.pdf http://www.ams.org/notices/201201/rtx120100010p.pdf

They do not address the question of IQ in any meaningful way. They only seek to show that women can succeed in mathematics. Summers in no way said that women could not succeed in math (or any other STEM field). The question of IQ has more to do with potential candidates rather than success of those candidates.

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Re:Men’s and Women’s Brains Appear to Age Differently by force_reboot on Sunday November 29, 2015 @12:12PM (#10645209)

Given the highly political nature of this topic, I don't think anyone is going to be convinced by saying "this was debunked by experts" without even posting a link. Especially when being a mathematician doesn't make you an expert in statistics or sociology, so the Notices of the AMS can't be considered authoritative on this topic.

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Re:Men’s and Women’s Brains Appear to Age Differently by tomp on Monday November 30, 2015 @03:56AM (#10648460)

Source? I'd love to read an article that disputes the finding (that men have greater variability in IQ and other traits than women).

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