To: Jeevacation[jeevacation@gmail.com]

From: roger schank

Sent: Mon 1/4/2010 12:53:33 PM

Subject: Re: there is a simpler explanation about women and intelligence

wrong; one; my very best PhD student was female; smartest woman I ever knew; she has decided to quit being a professor and is now an accupuncturist; that is the point; no matter how smart, she wanted to be liked or some such crap; also she failed to be brilliant when I made her leave Yale; she needed a man in order to be smart; they all do

roger schank
http://www.rogerschank.com/

On Jan 4, 2010, at 7:27 AM, Jeevacation wrote:

> It's the tail of distribution, no really smart women ---none
> Sent from my iPhone
> On Jan 4, 2010, at 7:15 AM, roger schank <blackened out> wrote:
> intelligence comes about in part from real focus (goal-directed
> behavior); (this is why you have the absent minded professor
> caricature)
> it is a rare woman who is not first and foremost focussed on what
> others are thinking and feeling about her
> hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why
> another woman hates you or why you dont own a kelly bag
> roger schank
> http://www.rogerschank.com/

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