Until people realize that just disaggregating data by gender will never tell us what we need to know about a 12-year-old girl's unique circumstances, we're never going to be able to realize her full potential.
"Data can be brought together to provide the necessary confidence but then disaggregated again," he said.
And in an interview on Thursday he confirmed that he did, but was just not inclined to disaggregate the figures.
"It is just not possible to disaggregate them and meet them through our three separate services.
"Right now," says former SEC commissioner Steven Wallman, "we take disaggregated data and have accountants aggregate it, only to have investors disaggregate it again".
Just as iTunes unbundled songs from a CD, the digital revolution enables a university degree to be disaggregated into its component parts – vocational knowledge, generic professional skills, deep discipline knowledge, practical training, evidence of achievement, networking opportunities and student lifestyle.
But people who are easily aggregated, he said, can also be easily disaggregated.
This data should be disaggregated by sex, that is, analysed separately for males and females.
Data can be disaggregated by sex, age, education, country, region, and UN Human Development Index (HDI) cohort.
Universities will be fundamentally transformed by these proposals, and the sector will be further disaggregated.
