Feminists Wrong?

From the Captain's Quarter. Looks like someone found a study that shows Lawrence Summers' statement about women and math may be factual.

The article has this big qualifying paragraph at the start.

The human brain is composed of two types of tissue--gray matter and white matter. While men and women have about the same amount of gray matter and white matter, men appear to use more gray matter, while women use more white matter. Before we proceed further, it's important to note that while the two genders may think differently, this does not affect their intellectual performance or overall intelligence. [Emphasis Mine]

Talk about the PC Pathetic. They qualify the whole thing before even discussing it.

Pretty lame study when you get through with it. The analysis group was pitifully small and likely causes a huge amount of error to be built in. Never mind the likely total lack of racial diversity (since we all must be so PC on this topic).

And just because it's funny I will point out this paragraph.

But women outshine men when it comes to vocabulary. In childhood, girls' vocabulary develops more quickly than that of boys; by adulthood, women can speak 20,000 to 25,000 words a day compared to a man's 7,000 to 10,000.

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Nothing on the variations in shopping habits in the study. Oh well, maybe in the next one.

UPDATE: I found a paper by one of the authors that appears to be on the topic. It's from 1995 and is written in some funky scientific language that I don't get. I'm just a Physicist, so this stuff is just strange to me. Here it is if you're interested.