[extropy-chat] Harvard president criticized over comments

[Eliezer Yudkowsky]

Damien Broderick wrote:
> At 01:48 PM 1/18/2005 -0500, John K Clark wrote:
> 
>> The extraordinary rarity of great female mathematicians also makes 
>> me wonder, but like I said I really don't know.
> 
> The extraordinary rarity of great male mathematicians also makes me 
> wonder if there's any point in training all those very ordinary male 
> scientists.
> 
> No, hang on, there must be something wrong here.

Last I heard, someone was claiming that the means were the same for the 
male and female distributions, but the male variance was higher.  Which I 
suppose makes sense, viewed as a cost/payoff for an evolutionary gamble.

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence