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Pinker interview on Gene Expression

Sun, 2006-07-02 21:32 -- John Hawks

Another in the series of "10 questions" interviews, this one with Steven Pinker. It touches on the politics of gender at Harvard, his upcoming book, and includes this quote-of-the-day candidate:

It's tremendously gratifying when a seemingly ugly pattern of data suddenly reveals itself as the predicted outcome of an elegant underlying process.

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