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One the other hand – to be fair – Lakoff disputes Pinker’s review and says it says he says the opposite of what he says.
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One the other hand – to be fair – Lakoff disputes Pinker’s review and says it says he says the opposite of what he says.
George Lakoff writes:
>This led him [Pinker] to support Lawrence Summer’s suggestion that there are fewer women than men in the sciences because of genetic differences.< I know nothing about Lakoff, but if this is typical of his level of debate I’m unimpressed. There are two distinct misrepresentations in this reporting of Summer’s (and Pinker’s) expressed views.
Yes. And that way of reporting meshes well with what Pinker criticizes in the review – it’s a framing approach. Never mind the facts, it’s all about frames. That’s precisely the inaccurate and misleading way people hostile to Summers always did frame what he said (Pinker corrected Andrew Marr for framing it that way on Start the Week, as I pointed out at the time).
And he spelt Summers’s name wrong — resulting in my doing the same! (The fact that I had misspelt it popped into my mind about an hour after I posted — funny how that happens!)