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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
Shh. Only some truths should be spoken aloud. You clearly deserve to lose your job if you speak one of the other truths that offends people.

>>AuryGl+H9
One should also be careful to claim that the dominant group is inherently superior. There are a lot of, uh, counter examples.

Calling this a truth is pretty silly. There is a lot of evidence that human cognition is highly dependent on environment.

>>alex_y+Nb
There's a lot of evidence that not having two X chromosomes is less stable, leading to...irregularities. That sword cuts both ways.

I don't like ignorance being promoted under the cloak of not causing offense. It causes more harm than good. If there's a societal problem, you can't tackle it without knowing the actual cause. Sometimes the issue isn't an actual problem caused an 'ism,' it's just biology, and it's a complete waste of resources trying to change it.