Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site looking.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!looking!brad From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: So what if there are inherent differences! Message-ID: <146@looking.UUCP> Date: Sun, 20-May-84 00:00:00 EDT Article-I.D.: looking.146 Posted: Sun May 20 00:00:00 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 20-May-84 03:22:07 EDT References: <158@decwrl.UUCP>, <342@astrovax.UUCP>, <7786@watmath.UUCP> Organization: Looking Glass Software, Waterloo, Ont Lines: 12 We can argue all day about the existence of inherent differences in technical ability. It still remains, however, that individual variation far far exceeds any difference in the means. The standard deviation for humanity is huge. If you proved to me that men, on average, were twice as smart as women in math, there would still be a large number of women who would make the grade even in comparison to these smarter men. So we would want to take advantage of it. So let's do what we can to make more smart people -- Brad Templeton - Waterloo, Ontario (519) 886-7304