throwing out the individual differences baby with the group differences bathwater
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Group-level differences in cognitive ability are in the news again, thanks to the quickly-notorious Google memo on the company's diversity efforts. You can find a lot of stuff written about these differences from qualified people already and I'm not gonna add to the pile, other than to say that from where I'm sitting, if there are any sex differences in intelligence or math ability, they seem not to exist in early childhood and there are plausible cultural and social reasons that they would appear by high school. The science on personality trait differences seems less clear to me but then those constructs are also less concrete. In all of this I'm pretty much in keeping with the liberal mainstream.
throwing out the individual differences baby with the group differences bathwater
throwing out the individual differences baby…
throwing out the individual differences baby with the group differences bathwater
Group-level differences in cognitive ability are in the news again, thanks to the quickly-notorious Google memo on the company's diversity efforts. You can find a lot of stuff written about these differences from qualified people already and I'm not gonna add to the pile, other than to say that from where I'm sitting, if there are any sex differences in intelligence or math ability, they seem not to exist in early childhood and there are plausible cultural and social reasons that they would appear by high school. The science on personality trait differences seems less clear to me but then those constructs are also less concrete. In all of this I'm pretty much in keeping with the liberal mainstream.