From: john@jfeldredge.com   
      
   On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:45:24 +1000, James A. Donald wrote:   
      
   > James A. Donald wrote:   
   >> > I suggest that affirmative action awards made by Academia, the Noble   
   >> > committee, and the rest be called: "Michelle Obama degrees"   
   >   
   > "John F. Eldredge"   
   >> It sounds more like your pride never recovered from finding out that   
   >> quite a few women were smarter than you are.  As far as I can tell, the   
   >> distribution of intelligence is about the same in both genders.   
   >   
   > Then you are blinded by ideology - for both evidence and casual   
   > observation shows that the kind of abilities and range of abilities are   
   > different - that women are better at some things and worse at others, as   
   > is obvious from statistical studies, from the way IQ tests are normed to   
   > *make* IQ the same for women as for men, and from everyday casual   
   > observation - including the characteristically and distinctively female   
   > arguments presented in this thread.   
      
   Yes, but given the range of topics covered in academia, saying that any   
   woman of high rank in it must have received her place for political   
   correctness, not for ability, contradicts what you said about women being   
   better at some things and worse in others.  For example, women are often   
   said to have better verbal skills than men, on average, so it would not   
   be a surprise to find highly-placed female scholars in fields such as   
   literature and history.   
      
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