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Good SAT Scores Lead To Higher Egg Donor Prices
alphadogg writes "Analysis from Georgia Institute of Technology of college newspaper egg donor ads showed that higher payments offered to egg donors correlated with higher SAT scores. 'Holding all else equal, an increase of 100 SAT points in the score of a typical incoming student increased the compensation offered to oocyte donors at that college or university by $2,350,' writes researcher Aaron D. Levine in a paper published in the March-April issue of the Hastings Center Report. Concerned about eggs being treated as commodities, and worried that big financial rewards could entice women to ignore the risks of the rigorous procedures required for harvesting, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine discourages compensation based on donors' personal characteristics. The society also discourages any payments over $10,000."
Hmm are you talking about the same Harvard president who suggested that the reason there were less postdoc women was because they were innately inferior?
www.dailyprincetonian.com
There are facts that women are under-represented in a lot of careers, particularly engineering, but rather than funding rigorous studies "on whether or not women lack the same mental abilities as men", shouldn't we be looking at social problems? Perhaps those women were told at a young age that they couldn't be good at math, or encouraged to play with dollies while the boys were encouraged play with Legos and blocks. It was only within the last 50 years that women were even let into most rigorous programs (medicine, law, etc). They were often refused on the most flimsy and outright sexist grounds, "Well academically you are overqualified, but we can't admit you because you might get pregnant and then will drop out"
I think history has had enough people trying to argue a scientific basis for discrimination or bias against women and minorities. If you want to do rigorous research, you will have to eliminate social and class variables which is quite impossible.