Giving Science the Finger

Generalizations based on hand shape not only are formulated from small pools of data, but smack of pseudo science.

By Jody Kolodzey

Here we go again. New scientific "evidence" has been released, bolstering the old claim that women who excel at math and science are less feminine--or at any rate more masculine--than their sisters who can't balance a checkbook or tell the difference between a phenome and [RETURN TO ARTICLE]

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    The positivist ethos has destroyed social science, and these kinds of ridiculous overgeneralizations are what results.  There needs to be more emphasis on critical, qualitative research in psychology and other fields.

    United States Posted by stolenchild on Jul 27, 2007 at 11:48 AM
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