Ian wrote:

> "stop children getting older than five years."
> 
>
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/03/18/ngirls18.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/03/18/ixportal.html
> 
> "Girls outstrip boys in academic, social, emotional and physical
> achievement by the age of five, the first national results of the
> "foundation stage profile" showed yesterday."
> 
> That's useful. I remember a couple of years ago, on the first hole, a
> professional took an three over par eight in competition.
> 
> If only we could have stopped the game there, I'd have been better than
> him.
> 
> 
> "The gap was narrowest - one percentage point - in knowledge and
> understanding of the world, the goal of which is to be able to
> "construct a wide range of objects, selecting appropriate resources,
> tools and techniques and adapting their work where necessary". "
> 
> This is the only one that has any meaning at all.
> 
> Patricia Hewitt really is a moron. What is she doing for the people of
> Leicester, oh that's right she spent the tax tax from 2000 single
> parent families, and a further 5000 ordinary families, on flowers for
> her office.
> 
> 
> "The dominance of girls was most marked in the areas of personal,
> social and emotional development. They were more likely than boys to be
> attentive and concentrate well; persevere when trying to solve a
> problem; understand that they could expect others to treat their needs,
> views, cultures and beliefs with respect (indicating a "positive
> self-image"); take the ideas of others into account;
> understand what is right, what is wrong, and why, and be able to
> express a range of emotions fluently and appropriately."
> 
> Total bollocks. Right and Wrong are societal constructs, the boys were
> equally well right when they maintain that, "This will happen because I
> want it to, and I'm going to make it." This is perfectly right, only
> wankers with sociology degrees could possibly project their ideas onto
> results.

Sociologists are the very peope who should 
understand all too well that concepts of right 
and wrong are largely societal contructs and, 
therefore, do not constitute a frame of reference.

It is precisely those wankers with sociology 
degrees that should know better than to project 
their own assumptions onto their supposedly 
academic work.

D.

> In short the girls scored higher marks, because they agreed with the
> testers, or put another way, the testers thunk like women.
> 



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