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!