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>>staran+(OP)
Larry Summers? He has no technical experience, torpedoed the stimulus plan in 2008, and had to resign the Harvard presidency following a messy set of statements about ‘differences’ between the sexes and their mental abilities.

Kind of a shocking choice.

>>alex_y+96
> “There is relatively clear evidence that whatever the difference in means—which can be debated—there is a difference in the standard deviation and variability of a male and female population,” he said. Thus, even if the average abilities of men and women were the same, there would be more men than women at the elite levels of mathematical ability

Isn’t this true though? Says more about Harvard than Summers to be honest.

https://www.swarthmore.edu/bulletin/archive/wp/january-2009_...

>>noneth+R6
A control group is kind of unimaginable right? And even if you could be sure of this conclusion, is it helpful or beneficial to promote it in public discourse?

>>alex_y+y8
Sorry, you don't get to decide which thoughts are wrongthink and verboten.

>>TMWNN+5f
I’m not suggesting that I get to decide or whatever, and I am absolutely happy there is reasoned discussion of cognition.

I do however expect the boards of directors of important companies to avoid publicly supporting obviously regressive ideas such as this gem.