Women in Science: the hedgehog rants

[oursin]

A rather annoying piece in today's Guardian Review by Brenda Maddox, biographer of Rosalind Franklin (and, if I recall correctly, of Nora Barnacle Joyce): There have been women with brilliant scientific minds, but far fewer than men.

Um, first question: how do we know that there have been far fewer women with BSM than men, given the restricted

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[chickenfeet2003]

It's the old story about trying to make generalised statements about the extremes of distributions. A useless and futile exercise.