Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences

by John Allen Paulos

A study indicates that whether or not a department has a mathematics or a statistics requirement is the most important single determinant of where a woman will attend graduate school to study political science.

This author seems to have a real problem with women. He highlights their categoric "innumeracy" multiple times. Decades later, he will go on to defend the claim that woman might be biologically inept at math. It could be that in the 80s, women didn't want to take math classes because guys like him were primarily teaching and attending them.

When feminist author Shere Hite or columnist Ann Landers reports that a surprisingly high percentage of their respondents are having affairs or would rather not have had children, we should automatically ask ourselves who is most likely to answer these questionnaires: someone having an affair or someone reasonably content, someone exasperated by her kids or someone happy with them.

Here he could have chosen any number of male hack authors to attack, but instead targets a "feminist" author and Ann Landers.