[extropy-chat] Harvard president criticized over comments

[Damien Broderick]

>"Boys are lagging, and in my view we are seeing the tip of a very serious
>national problem," said Judith Kleinfeld, a psychology professor at the
>University of Alaska in Fairbanks.
>[...]
>"We had some concern that girls were completing assignments much more
>rapidly and much more thoroughly" than boys, Ledbetter said.

Isn't that an interesting way to put it? Not: `"We've had some concern that 
boys were completing assignments much more slowly and much less thoroughly" 
than girls, Ledbetter said.'

What's *wrong* with this planet?

Damien Broderick