Anyone even remotely interested in feminist scholarship and the textbooks used on university campuses, needs to read this article. (HT: HotAir) I can't do justice to the article in a sentence or two. Summary: be very suspicious of statistics, expect hyperbole, and don't expect most feminist authors to care about accuracy (many refuse to correct mistakes even when pointed out). Here's how Ms. Sommers begins her article:
"Harder to kill than a vampire." That is what the sociologist Joel Best
calls a bad statistic. But, as I have discovered over the years, among
false statistics the hardest of all to slay are those promoted by
feminist professors. [more ...]
