[Edu-sig] Microsoft's KPL

[Chuck Allison]

Hello Arthur,

Saturday, October 8, 2005, 6:27:41 PM, you wrote:

A> Not getting it.  Beauty is beauty, and is never useful.  Why is there a
A> rejection in the women's culture of this particular form of useless beauty?

A> But there are 2 important things to reject, I believe:

A> That women are somehow less capable in this area.

I've thought they just weren't interested.

A> That something has been or is being done to them -  by someone or something
A> that isn't them  - to exclude them. 

This claim has been made, but, like you, I don't buy it.

But I have read plenty of research through math society publications
that suggests that perhaps there is a genetic difference
mathematically. The jury is still out, of course, but the numbers
point that way. That's what the Harvard president in trouble, but the
numbers are in his favor. It would be nice to figure all this out
someday.

I have only one female out of three classes I'm teaching this
semester. Pretty status quo.

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Best regards,
 Chuck