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brain sizes: Einstein's and women's

Parse Tree parsetree at hotmail.com
Fri Jul 12 23:59:09 EST 2002


"Shadow Dancer" <insomniac at winterslight.org> wrote in message
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> "Parse Tree" <parsetree at hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:tEIX8.742$WF6.141028 at news20.bellglobal.com...
> > "Shadow Dancer" <insomniac at winterslight.org> wrote in message
> > news:agndj7$mv8r4$1 at ID-150265.news.dfncis.de...
> >
> > These studies are all quite meaningless.  It is a fact that men perform
> > better in mathematics, which means that males have a higher level
> > performance.  Anything else is an arbitrary assessment, just as it would
> be
> > to say that males perform better because their brains are different.
> > Completely arbitrary.
>
> I'm female, and I was a numerical mathematics major in college.
>
> My IQ tested off the scale.
>
> So much for your theories.

We're talking about the average.  And the fact that you think a single
anecdote refutes this, doesn't speak well for your reasoning.





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