Reading and Assignments for Sept 2 and other class stuff

For Wednesday, Sept 2, please read Chapter 2 (“Under-representation or misrepresentation” by Doreen Kimura) of the text book.  Please post your blog by noon on Wednesday.  Please try to read your classmates blogs before class–if you have time, try to respond to one of them, but response is not a requirement this time.  (Nice job, Olivia T–you posted your blog, before I posted this announcement!)

Next Sunday, at 5pm, your first Comparative Essay is due.  The Comparative Essay guidelines and rubrics can be found under the Assignments menu.  Please read these ahead of time–we will go over them in class on Wednesday.

I have added a link to the full text of Larry Summers comments on the blog site, under Background Reading/Data.  Several of you asked me to what data Larry Summers was referring.  In his statements about males and females on the extremes of the distributions, he was referring to data similar to Figure 6.1 (p. 81) in the text book (this is only one example of such studies).  If you do a Google Scholar search of Xie and Schauman, to which Summers refers, you can see the book to which he refers, to reviews of the book, and other articles that Xie and Schauman have published.  Check to see if our library has the book–I welcome anyone who would like to bring in outside publications or articles to discuss in class.  I will create another menu where we can add them.