How Can There Still Be a Sex Difference, Even When There Is No Sex Difference?

Re:How Can There Still Be a Sex Difference, Even When There ... by mikeash on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @03:54PM (#9847687)

Some academics have the ear of powerful people. Some don't. Like in any other field.

Academia tends to be where far-out ideas come from, just because it's an environment that encourages it. Some of those ideas will be discovered by people in power and used to shape policy. Other will not. To blame academia for this or point to this process as evidence that academics are powerful seems an awful lot like being afraid of language because language can be used to convince people to do bad things.

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Re:How Can There Still Be a Sex Difference, Even When There ... by convivialdingo on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @06:31PM (#9848544)

I agree. Language is just a form of communication, it can be used or misused.

It would be a fiction to downplay the power of academics in modern society. Academics has the power to mold and frame the minds of the next generation of leaders, alter government policy and to influence an entire populace from childhood.

I see your point that academics has been demonized at times, however I think it's more appropriate to judge it on outcomes.

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