Letters to the Editor
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CW, next time post the weblink instead of the article, you fucking moron
If you want your own website, then start one. This is called "letters to the editor" not "reprint entire fucking articles to make a pointless point."
P.S.--Psyprof, DeVry doesn't count as a real campus. Thought you should know.
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DeVry?
I don't get it. Did I miss something?
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"pointless points"
where you can put your DNA on file, under your contol, but have it available to disprove paternity/rape etc. etc. allegations
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One of the "pointless points" of the article was that, at least in the case of paternity, DNA proof still does not always get a guy off the hook for payments. He is not repayed for past payments even when cleared, either.
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I know, but if the information were available quicker it might be easier
to get in under various deadlines in the process when it, sometimes, does make a difference.
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Reposting the full text of articles from other sites...
... is not cool, sorry. It's fair use to republish short excerpts but not to post an entire article, as a poster named "CW" did. (And without, as far as I could see, citing the source, even.) We've deleted the article. For those interested in reading it, it's by Matt Welch, it's from Reason magazine, and you can find it at this URL:
http://www.reason.com/0402/fe.mw.injustice.shtml
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sorry
I apologize for posting the article, and definitely did not mean to snub the source. I was excited to have people read the content, but should have simply posted the link. It wont happen in the future. Again, it was a misjudgement on my part.
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Bell curve
Al, you may be onto something at least with regard to math skills. Men have, as a population, higher scores on math-related skills than women and there are more "math geniuses" that are male than are female. The difference in average is not that great, though. (This comes from Doreen Kimura's book on sex differences, BTW, but is well documented elsewhere). However, males are more likely to be mentally retarded than females. According to the standard reference book (the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association), the ratio is about 1.5: 1.0 for males. This suggests a somewhat wider bell curve for males. Females score higher on some tasks but it's my impression that these tasks tend not to impact IQ scores a great deal.
This is based on IQ scores, the usefulness of which is debated in psychology and elsewhere.
There are two problems with the idea that "psycprof could have his braduate students study this".
Sadly, I do not have graduate students as I work at an undergraduate-only institution. I am also female. But Al, didn't you say you were going back to school...? :)
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the bell curce may be different because maleness can use a high risk genetic strategy that femaleness can't
a trait which 90 percent of the time leads to a social malfunction such as autism can be genetically made up for in males by one successfull genius who can father 10 or 100 kids. If a trait leads to 90% of females fucked up then 90% of the kids don't get raised right, (and females can only have one kid at a time anyway) and the whole population suffers. So high risk (but potentially high payoff) genes get concentrated on the Y chromosome and selected out everywhere else.