Seriously?

[rivkat]

Talk about a Freudian slip:

Because of an editing error, the Findings column on Tuesday, about political bias among social scientists, omitted the last four words of a sentence that countered the notion that female scientists face discrimination and various forms of unconscious bias. The sentence should have read: But that assumption has been repeatedly contradicted, most recently in a study published Monday in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by two Cornell psychologists, Stephen J. Ceci and Wendy M. Williams.

Comments

[brownbetty]

I like the limpid way that what was omitted is “the last four words.” Oh, well then!

I know...!

[auroramama]

Right. Because "Williams", "Wendy", and "M." are what come to mind when you think of random examples of words.

Re: I know...!

[brownbetty]

They didn't even say “the second author” or something which might acknowledge a person was omitted. Just four words!

[flywoman.livejournal.com]

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

[giandujakiss]

OH MY GOD.

[abbylee]

Wow, that's proving itself wrong twice. I'm sort of amazed.

[tehomet]

FFS!

[vito_excalibur]

ahahahaha...ha ha ha...*sob*

[(Anonymous)]

That is sort of amazing. (And, I agree: last four words? Try a human being!)

-caia

[jenrose]

Sigh. I think about gender bias in mathematics, and I remember high school, when I beat the pants off all the guys on all the calculus tests and whatnot, but was not offered a position on the state math competition team. Junior year, about 40% of the kids on track to take calculus senior year were girls. Half of those decided to do something else senior year. I liked my math teacher. I liked my classmates. But I was still left going "WTF" at the whole thing.

But my generation (class of '90) had it better than my mother's generation (class of '68) and my daughter (class of 2011) has it better still. Progress is made, but that doesn't mean we get to rest on our laurels.

[celli]

...awesome.

*facepalm*