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No Gap Found In Math Abilities of Girls, Boys
sciencehabit writes "For anyone who still believes that boys are better at math than girls, a massive new study published today in Science shows there's no difference. 'Among students with the highest test scores, the team did find that white boys outnumbered white girls by about two to one. Among Asians, however, that result was nearly reversed. Hyde says that suggests that cultural and social factors, not gender alone, influence how well students perform on tests.' But the researchers do note a disturbing trend towards omitting harder kinds of math questions from standardized tests."
I want more women in my IT department! Too bad nothing will come from this...
(even if anything does come from this, it'll probably take a decade or two, which makes me feel old already)
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Next they'd have you believe that girls fart and use the internet too... I'm not buying it!
I'm a boy, and I've met girls who I'm better at math than.
Therefore boys are better at math than girls.
Heh, stupid girls probably can't even follow simple basic logic like that ;-)
The math in this study was done by girls.
--- What?
I was just commenting about this with a coworker this morning, and how the Minneapolis Star Tribune indicates Minnesota high school girls are still lagging behind boys. I said we just need to bump down the high school boys' performance a couple notches and we'll be good: no child left behind!
white boys should breed with asian girls, creating an uberrace of math chomping supergenius kids
i for one welcome our eurasian einsteinchan overlords
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Because obviously if it was conducted by a male, it will be biased toward boys and if it was conducted by a female, it will be biased toward girls, right?
Thus, I hereby suggest hiring a transsexual robot to lead the next survey.
White girls are stupid.
No you insensitive clod, because if it was done by men the quantification would be way off!
Trust me, I know lots of girls who aren't afraid to touch IT
Aye! Aye! Aye!
I volunteer to be part of this experiment. Infact, I will give it my all!
Dedicated Cthulhu Cultist since 4523 BC.
"Math is hard! Let's go shopping!"
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
They focused in skin color... hair color would had lead to a more eath-shaking conclusion.
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Americans are better at counting than Brits, as Brits seem to think there is more than one math.
Utilizing the synergization of benchmark e-solutions to pre-workaround action items!
There is nothing wrong with glorifying a large breasted bimbo. Appreciate everyone for their talents. Even if that talent consists of attractively stuffing a sweater!
You must be new here.
It also says boys do 7% better in the maths portion of the SATs, but writes it off as a statistical illusion due to more girls doing the test (they don't know how averages work?).
They wanted to do the statistics and provide figures. But the study was done by a group of 5 women - The math was too hard. =)
That's why a 7% gap with 1.5 million participants is just a "statistical illusion". If their confidence boundary with that many data points equates 7% with "Zip. Zilch. Nada.", their standard deviations must have been huge.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
Seriously, I might have misunderstood feminism, but I thought the point was to increase choices and achievement not force new equally restrictive constraints on women while also screwing over men to achieve it.
> Seriously, I might have misunderstood feminism, but I thought the point was to increase choices and achievement while also screwing over men to achieve it.
There, fixed that for you. :)
Maybe when you've been on the receiving end of oppression for 10,000 years, maybe when you live in a society that isn't geared toward promoting the dominance of your sex, maybe when you weren't raised in an environment of almost absolute privilege, you get to complain. But on the whole, the fact that you might be complaining that women are smarter than you and dominate a few areas of the job market, while still lagging significantly behind in most others, is just fucking pathetic. Grow a pair, be a man.
IAALS.
Does anyone see anything wrong with this? Their results may be true, but that doesn't mean the study was valid.
But the study had a politically correct result! It must be valid! Blasphemer.
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