{"id":73,"date":"2006-07-19T22:15:37","date_gmt":"2006-07-19T21:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scrupeda.net\/wordpress\/2006\/07\/19\/one-sane-person\/"},"modified":"2006-07-30T18:34:02","modified_gmt":"2006-07-30T17:34:02","slug":"one-sane-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scrupeda.net\/wordpress\/2006\/07\/19\/one-sane-person\/","title":{"rendered":"One sane person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>One sane person<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Q. Why do some people attribute differences in professional achievement to innate ability?<br \/>\n<br \/>\nA. One of the reasons is the belief by highly successful people that they are successful because of their own innate abilities. I think as a professor at Stanford I am lucky to be here. But I think Larry Summers thinks he is successful because of his innate inner stuff.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nQ. What about the idea that men and women differ in ways that give men an advantage in science?<br \/>\n<br \/>\nA. People are still arguing over whether there are cognitive differences between men and women. If they exist, it\u2019s not clear they are innate, and if they are innate, it\u2019s not clear they are relevant. They are subtle, and they may even benefit women. <\/p>\n<p>But when you tell people about the studies documenting bias, if they are prejudiced, they just discount the evidence.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nQ. How does this bias manifest itself?<br \/>\n<br \/>\nA. It is very much harder for women to be successful, to get jobs, to get grants, especially big grants. And then, and this is a huge part of the problem, they don\u2019t get the resources they need to be successful. Right now, what\u2019s fundamentally missing and absolutely vital is that women get better child care support. This is such an obvious no-brainer. If you just do this with a small amount of resources, you could explode the number of women scientists.<br \/>\n&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/07\/18\/science\/18conv.html?ei=5090&#038;en=d0825d45a981dd62&#038;ex=1310875200&#038;adxnnl=1&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss&#038;adxnnlx=1153339235-xcLABlg226GrJBbemltD3g\">Read it all.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One sane person &#8220;Q. Why do some people attribute differences in professional achievement to innate ability? A. One of the reasons is the belief by highly successful people that they are successful because of their own innate abilities. I think as a professor at Stanford I am lucky to be here. But I think Larry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anderswo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrupeda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrupeda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrupeda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrupeda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrupeda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrupeda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrupeda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrupeda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrupeda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}