Josh Marshall asking whether he is missing the whole point about possible Larry Summers appointment.

Yes he is missing the point when it comes to what "women are stupid" brouhaha.

Josh ,Please refer the book Super Crunchers by Ian Ayers.Pages 204-207.

He was making an acedemic argument about some known observations.If you want to  boil down  to one sentence what he  said (Which should not be done),it would be "Men are more stupid than women".Total opposite of what NOW and the media claim.

 

Update:

I couldn't find my way here to post only an image ,so I'm linking to an impage in google.(the image shows two normal distributions with same mean and different standard deviations)

The graph has  two curves.One shorter , flater and  high variablity (Male).The other steeper with less variability(Female).

Summers was trying to calculate standard deviation difference backwords,using some known observations(IQ in 12th Garders and kown representation in Science and Math academics)

Looking at the grapgh,If you  can choose your future child's IQ which curve will  you choose?The curve with more chances to have  high IQ as well as a  low IQ OR the curve with better chance of having a good  IQ? Which gender tends to be more  stupider(though it is the wrong word here)?

Whatever said and done ,it is inevitable that congressional democrats have to sign a deal with the current administration . No democrat should sign the bill ,unless the following pre-conditon is satisfied. President Bush calls a press conference with the following attendees.President Bush,vice president Cheney ,Grover Norquistand the republican candidates McCain and Palin. First Grover Norquist should come to the stage and say "Goverment is not the problem.Efficiently run government can a be tool to bring prosperity and social order(or something like that,you get the picture)" Then the President ,vice president ,McCain and Palin should come to the microphone and say "I'm ------- and I approve this message" one after the other". Then the signing of the deal can happen.

If the tire pressure gauge is turning out to be the purple finger of 2008,there is an easy way to turn the tables.Just F--- up the message.It is easy.
Use the same tire pressure gauge and say "Savings From McCain Drilling Plan".Let the surrogates and rally attendents appear with same tire gauge and point out that the same oil production from additional drilling can be saved from the tire presurre gauge and mock the whole idea.Question McCains judgement for teh long term good o fthe country.Use the identical images and just hammer it had for two days and the genius plan will be FUBAR!