From: Edgar W Swank (edgarswank@juno.com)
Date: Sat Jan 25 1997 - 19:48:13 MST
Kennita Watson wrote:
>It seems we have problems at defining intelligence. If we use some
>standard metric, like IQ, SAT or whatever (we still haven't heard any
>definitive numbers), somebody might argument that these metrics are
not
>gender-neutral.
Might this perhaps be because men defined the metrics (and wrote the
tests)?
Sure, but the tests are valuable precisely because they strongly
predict success in employment or academics, which are, admittedly
also largely set up by males.
But these male institutions are retained because they have shown
success in satifying a market composed of both men and women.
Within that constraint, women are quite free to found their own
academic institutions, corporations, achievement tests, whatever;
but we observe that they have not, to any great degree. Wonder
why not?
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