In article <Xns924BB9432C91Fnospamcom at 198.164.200.20>, GodEvolved
<nospam at spam.com> wrote:
>hopems at mail.utexas.edu (Hope Munro Smith) wrote in
> news:hopems-1407021613330001 at cs6625171-151.austin.rr.com:
>> > In article <Xns924BB4E0CCA44nospamcom at 198.164.200.20>, GodEvolved
> > <nospam at spam.com> wrote:
> >
> >> "John Knight" <johnknight at usa.com> wrote in
> >> news:6JkY8.59626$P%6.3948507 at news2.west.cox.net:
> >>
> >> >
> >> > "Hope Munro Smith" <hopems at mail.utexas.edu> wrote in message
> >> > news:hopems-1307021051520001 at cs6625171-151.austin.rr.com...> >> >> In article <3D2F9A44.2503D0E9 at gwi.net>, "Mark D. Morin"
> >> >> <mdmpsyd at PETERHOOD69gwi.net> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> > John Knight wrote:
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > "Angilion" <angilion at ypical.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
> >> >> > > news:3d2f507c.20059553 at news.freeserve.net...> >> >> > > > [several groups cut to avoid excessive crossposting]
> >> >> > > >
> >> >> > > > On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 15:19:57 -0500, "Shadow Dancer"
> >> >> > > > <insomniac at winterslight.org> wrote:
> >> >> > > >
> >> >> > > > [..]
> >> >> > > >
> >> >> > > > >http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Thompson/psychsex.htm> >> >> > > > >
> >> >> > > > >To Quote:
> >> >> > > > >
> >> >> > > > >"The most important single contribution to our knowledge of
> >> >> > > > >the
> >> > facts of
> >> >> > > the
> >> >> > > > >case is to be found in Dr. Franklin P. Mall's paper 'On
> >> >> > > > >Several
> >> >> > > Anatomical
> >> >> > > > >Characters of the Human Brain Said to Vary According to
> >> >> > > > >Race and
> >> > Sex,
> >> >> > > with
> >> >> > > > >Especial Reference to the Weight of the Frontal Lobe' (Am.
> >> >> > > > >J. of
> >> > Anat.,
> >> >> > > IX.,
> >> >> > > > >p. 1, 1909). Dr. Mall's general conclusion is that there is
> >> >> > > > >as yet
> >> > no
> >> >> > > > >reliable evidence for the variation of anatomical
> >> >> > > > >characters with
> >> > either
> >> >> > > > >race or sex. The belief that the brains of females differ
> >> >> > > > >from
> >> > those of
> >> >> > > > >males has been widely accepted, and has been thought to be
> >> > conclusive
> >> >> > > > >evidence of the permanent inferiority of the female mind.
> >> >> > > >
> >> >> > > > That's obviously out of date - the general belief nowdays is
> >> >> > > > that
> >> > women
> >> >> > > > are *more* intellectually capable than men. Try reading the
> >> >> > > > posts John Knight was replying to, for example. Are you
> >> >> > > > going to counter those, or are you one of the many who think
> >> >> > > > that female people are innately superior to male people?
> >> >> > > >
> >> >> > > > You are going back to 1910 for that paper. Do you think
> >> >> > > > that's actually relevant to today, especially in her
> >> >> > > > conclusions about the prevailing belief concerning which sex
> >> >> > > > is mentally superior?
> >> >> > > >
> >> >> > > > As an aside, I have seen it hypothesised that brain mass
> >> >> > > > correlates
> >> > with
> >> >> > > > height. That would neatly explain the average difference in
> >> >> > > > brain mass between men and women (as an artefact of the
> >> >> > > > average difference in height) and the hypothesis sounds
> >> >> > > > plausible. However, I haven't seen any evidence for it. Do
> >> >> > > > you have any?
> >> >> > > >
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > Because of Wechsler's LIE, they obviously started with the
> >> >> > > thesis that
> >> > "men
> >> >> > > and women have the same IQ", and then worked backwards from
> >> >> > > there to
> >> > prove
> >> >> > > the thesis.
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > They're just like Wechlser.
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > "When Wechsler was developing his IQ test, he found that out
> >> >> > > of 105
> >> > tests
> >> >> > > assessing skills in solving maze-puzzles, involving the most
> >> > heterogeneous
> >> >> > > populations throughout the world, 99 showed an
> >> >> > > incontrovertible male superiority. (Wechsler resolved this
> >> >> > > type of problem by eliminating
> >> > all
> >> >> > > those tests that resulted in findings of significant sex
> >> > differences.)"
> >> >> > > Leonardo_member at newsguy.com in 9miftl0239r at drn.newsguy.com> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > They throw out 94% of the test,
> >> >> >
> >> >> > What test? It wasn't constructed yet.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > then proclaim "the sexes are equal".
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > But GRE enables us to put those questions BACK on the table,
> >> >> >
> >> >> > strange, none of the published research, available at
> >> >> > http://www.gre.org/respredict.html support that hypothesis.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > > and expose
> >> >> > > Wechlser's LIE:
> >> >> > > http://christianparty.net/gregeometry.htm> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > http://christianparty.net/gre.htm> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > John Knight
> >> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> This very page says that "It is a very select group of Americans,
> >> >> less than 0.1% of the US population, which takes the Graduate
> >> >> Record Exam each year."
> >> >> Thus we can conclude absolutely nothing from the data as it is not
> >> >> representative of the US population, only 0.1% of it.
> >> >
> >> > This MAKES the case.
> >> >
> >> > Theoretically (and of course affirmative action threw all such
> >> > theory out the window) this would not be just 0.1% of the
> >> > population--it would be the *top* 0.1%.
> >> >
> >> > iow, this is the BEST of the BEST in women in academia, science,
> >> > math, physics, chemistry, etc.
> >> >
> >> > And the BEST of the BEST of women come nowhere close to the median
> >> > of men in MANY of these test scores. For example, at
> >> > http://christianparty.net/gre.htm you will see that the top 2
> >> > percentile of female education majors score lower than the median
> >> > of male engineering majors. Needless to say, the gap between the
> >> > top 2 percentile of each group is even bigger than the gap in the
> >> > median scores, which is 239 points.
> >>
> >> Hold on a sec here. You can't do that. You can't compare education
> >> majors to engineering majors and then claim that its proof positive
> >> that women aren't as smart as men. That's like comparing apples and
> >> oranges.
> >>
> >> Having just looked at the data, I find it interesting that supporting
> >> pages will either not display and are disallowed by the server. Be
> >> that as it may, however, you still can't compare people in different
> >> majors and draw some sort wild, generalized conclusion. Well, you
> >> can, but you shouldn't.
> >>
> >
> >
> > Good point GE. Again, I also find it strange that verbal scores
> > tend to be omitted from the few charts I was able to load.
>> I'm not sure what purpose verbal scores would serve on a engineering
> degree.
Well, I'm sure that math scores are more important than verbal
scores for engineering, but I think any engineering school would pass
on someone with a verbal score of less than 300 even if they had
a perfect quantitative score. Anyway, my points was that all
of this guy's charts seem to be based on quantitative scores.
This makes me wonder why verbal scores were omitted and makes
me suspect the reason is that they would not support Knight's
sexist and racist agenda.
Here is an article on a study done by Cornell and Yale
that proves my point about the GRE not predicting success
in graduate school:
The Graduate Record Examination (GRE) does little to predict who will do
well in graduate school for psychology and quite likely in other fields as
well, according to a new study by Cornell and Yale universities.
Of the three subtests of the GRE (verbal, quantitative and analytical) and
the GRE advanced test in psychology, only the analytical subtest predicted
any aspect of graduate success beyond the first-year grade point average
(GPA), and this prediction held for men only. The verbal subtest and
psychology test predicted first-year GPA, but this prediction vanished by
the second year's GPA.
"With these exceptions, the GRE scores were not useful as predictors of
various aspects of graduate performance, including ratings by primary
advisers of analytical, creative, practical, research and teaching
abilities by primary advisers and ratings of dissertation quality by
independent faculty readers," said Wendy M. Williams, associate professor
of human development at Cornell University.
rest of the article at
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Aug97/GRE.study.ssl.html
