[extropy-chat] Harvard president criticized over comments

[Brett Paatsch]

> http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/01/17/harvard.president.ap/index.html

I can't see much in this news article that's actually news.

It would be interesting and of course it could have practical consequences
for policy etc if real sex differences exist (and I suspect they do, on 
average,
to some extent), but if "the Harvard president" actually said anything
substantive about his *reasons* for thinking there are differences the
reporter didn't seem to see fit to pass them on.

Perhaps the female Harvard graduate was justified in being offended and in
walking out of his talk, perhaps not. The answer to that turns on what he
actually said.

This is more like gossip than news. Its like we're invited to take a side in 
a
battle where the very thing missing is the only thing that would justify 
taking
a side - the truth, i.e. what "the Harvard president" actually said, and 
more
importantly his evidence and reasons for saying it.

Brett Paatsch