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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."
Nazis used all kinds of "science" to make their point, they didn't just declare other races as inferior, they used scientists to base their claims. See my point? In TFA science is used in sex battle, to compare two sexes, which is sexist by nature. More than that they compare races, implying that asian men are inferior to asian women and inferior to white men.
Thank you, this is stupidest and not politically correct article I ever read in last 10 years, coming most likely from feminist "doctor".
- Arwen, I'm your father, Agent Smith.
- Well, you're just Smith, but my father is Aerosmith!
Your right, they might be genetically equal at math. They might not, or they might be better. Who knows. Until we have a culture that doesn't make it perfectly clear from birth that a girl can get all the things she wants easier by screwing than by being smart, we will not see women as a group compete on a level playing field. This isn't a jab against women. If boys were brought up being told that they could screw their way to a level or two from the top, they wouldn't try so hard either.
Seriously, if faced with the choice of work real hard to learn a lot of stuff so that you can become wealthy, or have lots of sex so that you can become wealthy, how many men here would choose the work real hard option? Every day, women are lured by the dark side. Every day they must make the choice, either consciously or subconsciously, as whether they keep working hard to be smart and successful, or to just start dating to achieve their goals. It is any surprise that a very large quantity of them choose sex over work?
If women want to become equal in business and the sciences, all they have to do is stop dating, sleeping with, and marrying men who are more successful than them. Start picking their mates based off of looks, and whether or not they put out. This will both reduce the pool of smart men that they have to compete with, as well as change the perception of little girls that they can expect sex to pay their way through life.
I knew that line would get a rise out of someone. A day without making someone uncomfortable is a wasted day in my book. Are you a white male, by chance? Whiner.
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yeah, right. Whoever voted you insightful needs to have their modding right revoked.
That is just more stupid feminist pseudo-sociological bullshit.
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
Becoming a tired classic : some study is made, and known to give the same result every single time. Girls and boys are not equal in math skills.
However once upon a time. Some "psychologists" manage to devise a test that changes the expected result to be more in line with political correctness. Mostly this just means the title (note how that upon closer examination white boys put down double the scores of white girls, so this is in fact for white girls a worse result than "average" for these studies, also the result mentions very clearly that there were no truly unknown problems on the test, so was this a test of math skills, or a test of carrying out given instructions correctly, an area where women have always outperformed men ?)
And *boom* it is published far and wide and accepted as universal truth, and I mean only the title, not the entire study.
This is, upon close examination, always the result of either fraud or skewing either the test, or the results.
There are way too many things too many scientists just REALLY want to be true, and this is one of them. Therefore, I for one will be trusting the many, many older and politically incorrect tests, and not let this one result override it.
It seems this Janet Hyde woman had priviledged access to SAT results, and therefore this study was at least partially sponsored by the government, who, surprise, surprise really wants women to score equally well. Although even she makes the point that the test has been dumbed down, and the question remains how well it tested analytical skills on hard problems. Clearly boys and girls do equally well on trivial, preprogrammed problems (then again, it is trivial to write a computer program that under those circumstances will have same or better performance, I mean if not presented with unknown problems).
You see this more and more. Even more controversial are cultural differences. Ever notice how even in Egypt where the general population is >90% muslim, the university (except the al-azhar, which does not teach anything we'd consider science), while run by muslims, has a majority non-muslims (which raises the question of how exactly the teaching staff manages to remain muslim ... can't be racism right ? muslims opressing non-muslims, a central part of the islamic religion, isn't racism apparently) (and let's just not mention how the same is true in gaza. Despite being less than a percent of the population, non-muslims outperform muslims academically in gaza, and in the west bank there is a small group of jews, a few hundred, versus several million muslims and even those few hundred ... but then that's so politically incorrect it cannot ever be mentioned, after all Jews are evil, especially in Israel, so nothing good can be theirs, right ?)