[humanrebar]

> Which are the media outlets where you're seeing a fight and push for pretending that biological differences don't exist?

It started in academia, but quickly spread to media, but the Larry Summers kerfuffle at Harvard comes to mind. In an academic context, Summers decides to be provocative and asks if biological differences could account for some gender gaps. He later gets run out of town.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Summers#Differences_b...

[leereeves]

This kind of political opposition might explain why less research exists documenting the existence of sex differences.

[rayiner]

Funny, I was going to use his example to prove the opposite point. How many people in the mainstream media are talking about the underrepresention of women among Fields Medalists? The vast amount of attention is focused on jobs where the distribution of genius-level IQs,[1] is not relevant: programmers, CEOs, business executives, etc.

And speaking of Summers, it's hilarious how people will cite him while ignoring his underlying point about aptitude distribution. Almost 40% of kids who have a 700+ math SAT are girls. Using Summers' reasoning we should see a lot more women in programming and engineering.

[1] This is leaving aside findings subsequent to Summers' comments that over time the disparity between men and women in IQ scores is narrowing.

[LanceH]

He proposed a scientific approach to finding the differences. The search for truth was rejected.

veritas indeed.