Comments on: Spar on “One Gender’s Crash”

By: Maryland Conservatarian

Maryland Conservatarian — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:51:44 +0000

I wonder what Larry Summers thinks about her hypothesis.

By: DavidL

DavidL — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:34:16 +0000

I am a male. I want to see the prototype. So lets have the girls form an all female investment firm. Then when the girls start out performing the market average, all the pragmatic, slow, dim witted males, will invest with the chicks. Voila!

By: steven

steven — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:59:28 +0000

Yawn. Another American Woman brainwashed by the hateful ideology known as Feminism. The most pampered, privileged women in the history of the world and all they do is complain.

By: moz

moz — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:36:54 +0000

I missed the bit where she pointed at female fund managers who have done better than average. Forget the “dramatically better than all men”, I’d settle for “significantly better than the market average”. The number of women doing these jobs is non-zero, and if women are inherently better you’d expect that at least some of those women would show up now.

By: Seth Finkelstein

Seth Finkelstein — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:01:22 +0000

Is she arguing biology is (statistical?) destiny as long as the implications are positive?

By: Me

Me — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:33:27 +0000

Debora Spar’s argument is hard to refute, not because its true, but because it is impossible to quantify or prove. It would be just as simple to say, monkeys with lasers make better test pilots than humans without arms. There is no way to know if any of that is true.

Men have a propensity to be “violent, dangerous and abusive”, but women have a propensity to be “irrational, emotional and non pragmatic.” Is that necessarily a better combination?