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Taking Sax and Brooks to Task
Posted by Chris on June 24, 2006
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Mark Liberman has two great posts over at Language Log debunking first a claim made by David Brooks in this article on the gender gap in education, and then Leonard Sax’s poor use of science that inspired Brooks’ claim. This is what Brooks wrote: There are a couple of reasons why the two lists might…