"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Promulgating Stereotypes: I never know what to make of studies that assert an innate difference in the minds of men and women, like those mentioned in this article from Scientific American. My gut instinct is to disbelieve them. They reek of the same odor as the studies done at the end of the last century and the beginning of this one that supported the eugenics movement. Any study of intellectual abilities relies on averaging the results of their test subjects, and so end up only promulgating stereotypes instead of showing any hard core proof of innate differences. The truth is that intellectual ability is varied among any group of people. Some women are good at the same sorts of tasks that many men are good at doing. Some aren't. Some men aren't either. posted by Sydney on
6/06/2002 08:23:00 AM
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