[extropy-chat] Harvard president criticized over comments

[Olga Bourlin]

From: "J. Andrew Rogers" <andrew at ceruleansystems.com>
> I would note two things:
>
> 1.)  Really brilliant people are not brilliant because they were
> trained.  You cannot be trained to be brilliant, as the very definition
> generally asserts abilities that are far beyond what can be obtained by
> mere training.  And most of the really brilliant people I can think of
> in history had little or unextraordinary training in the fields their
> brilliance is noted in.
>
> 2.)  Math and science are only related insofar as science often uses
> math.  Scientists and mathematicians have very different thought
> processes.

Aha!

"Lawrence Summers, the president of Harvard, has been pilloried for 
suggesting that women may be biologically unsuited to succeed at 
mathematics.
He may have a point.

Just look at Condoleezza Rice.":

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/20/opinion/20dowd.html?oref=login&hp

Olga