... means is a 'a small chicken'. Larger are broilers and larger still are roasters. Now, I don't know off-hand how big any of these chickens are supposed to be, as in the US, ... steak on menus, but in AmE one tends to see filet mignon as a rough equivalent. Meanwhile, on the pig: And the British ones: I've already discussed bacon briefly elsewhere. The other main pork difference ...

... Pinker's take-away claim is that Gladwell's work puts sciencey lipstick on the pig of anti-science "populism": "The common thread in Gladwell’s ... in the top ranks of science faculty might be due to gender differences in IQ distribution, some of the roasters were scientists. They didn't claim Summers was politically incorrect to say there could be a biological basis ...