If it's true that boys are a "distraction", or at least "different enough" to be a problem* then girls-only camps serve only to kick the can down the road: girls don't know how to deal with boys. So what's to happen when they go into environments with boys? They get disappointed and leave.
I wonder if that's really the case. My two teenagers go to single-sex Catholic high schools (the public schools s-t-i-n-k) and they seem to be able to function well around teenagers of the opposite sex. (Note, though, that I don't push either into tech, and neither shows interest in it.)
Thus, I blame parents for coddling their kids too much.
Since when has the US and Europe had unfettered market capitalism? Hell, even in the 1800s there were all sorts of market protection laws and government grants to business.
Alternative is regulation and holding somebody accountable.
How do I know those statistics aren't pulled out of thin air?
Anyway... having seen and spoken with many Education majors when I went to college, I can categorically state: "Half of the problem is that of Educators." (The other half is parents.)
Or... it's just more delusional feeding of self-esteem (thereby increasing the amount of people who suffer the Dunning-Kruger effect), which has a documented serious downside to society.
Platitudes like "work hard and be all you can be" have the benefit of actually being true.
The amount of fraud and incompetence in medical and psychological "studies" (along with the utter *fail* of peer review make me think that Medicine and Psychology drove off the rails into Snake Oil World many decades ago.
I recall it more as "We hear lots of chatter. Something Big is going to happen." That's not useful.
almost a year ahead of time
To me, "8 months" is not "almost a year".
or for more nefarious reasons
Your credibility just flew out the window, if for no other reason that someone (Colin Powell, for instance) in the Administration would have squealed by now.
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Since it's a metaphysical certitude that Elon Musk doesn't vote Republican or belong to the Tea Party, your comment pushes the bounds of stupidity.
Unless you're doing a Poe. In which case.... "Well played, sir!"
If it's true that boys are a "distraction", or at least "different enough" to be a problem* then girls-only camps serve only to kick the can down the road: girls don't know how to deal with boys. So what's to happen when they go into environments with boys? They get disappointed and leave.
I wonder if that's really the case. My two teenagers go to single-sex Catholic high schools (the public schools s-t-i-n-k) and they seem to be able to function well around teenagers of the opposite sex. (Note, though, that I don't push either into tech, and neither shows interest in it.)
Thus, I blame parents for coddling their kids too much.
What Nintendo Needs To Learn From Ingress
When I saw the title, I thought they misspelled Ingres.
And what, exactly, did you mean?
Why did you automatically assume the worst? There are other choices besides Yes. And you're smart, too. and Hey, kid, you're an idiot!, you know.
One of them is, "work hard and be the best that you can be."
From your post, you look a bit like an MRA with a lower-than-average sense of social responsibility.
(I had to look up MRA.)
From your polarized response, you look a lot like a SJW with a higher-than-average sense of your own self-righteousness.
That's unfettered market capitalism
Since when has the US and Europe had unfettered market capitalism? Hell, even in the 1800s there were all sorts of market protection laws and government grants to business.
Alternative is regulation and holding somebody accountable.
You forgot bribery and Communism.
And a civilization-killer asteroid *could* crash into the Earth this evening. They're both equally unlikely.
I was too polite to write where I thought you were pulling it from. I shouldn't have been.
How do I know those statistics aren't pulled out of thin air?
Anyway... having seen and spoken with many Education majors when I went to college, I can categorically state: "Half of the problem is that of Educators." (The other half is parents.)
You're confusing "Educators" with "Evolution". Easy mistake, what with both having 9 letters and starting with "E".
Are you a troll who's purposefully misinterpreting what I wrote? Or just a complete idiot?
since for most people, no amount of trying will permit them to realize their full potential.
That's irrational, since Average Jane's full potential is her full potential, which is a lot less than Marie Curie's full potential.
IOW, "be all you can be" != "be all Marie Curie can be".
because children are mentally fragile.
Surprisingly, they aren't.
This isn't rocket science.
You're right. People have been raising children for lots longer than we've had rocket science.
because we dumped on them when they were young.
Where did I say to dump on them? A platitude like "Try your best." has the dual benefits of not dumping on them and also not being a lie.
Or... it's just more delusional feeding of self-esteem (thereby increasing the amount of people who suffer the Dunning-Kruger effect), which has a documented serious downside to society.
Platitudes like "work hard and be all you can be" have the benefit of actually being true.
"In prehistoric times the wild horse was probably first hunted for food."
I'm sure that Little Suzy would *love* to hear that...
Never comment in /. before drinking coffee.
What if the girl is actually stupid? (Not that the concept that most girls are average or below average is even thinkable is 2015...)
Sylogism, much?
(And you wonder why the US is in an idiocracy death spiral?)
Louis Pasteur comes to mind, as does Alexander Fleming.
Of course, neither of them were actually MDs.
Remind me to never, ever buy anything with an Apple logo on it.
The amount of fraud and incompetence in medical and psychological "studies" (along with the utter *fail* of peer review make me think that Medicine and Psychology drove off the rails into Snake Oil World many decades ago.
There is no free money. Ever. And there never will be.
And by simplifying and removing that bureaucracy, you can theoretically save money overall.
By firing all of the redundant bureaucrats? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
in the form of SS (old age, disability, survivor benefits), food stamps, etc, etc?
Bush received multiple credible warnings
I recall it more as "We hear lots of chatter. Something Big is going to happen." That's not useful.
almost a year ahead of time
To me, "8 months" is not "almost a year".
or for more nefarious reasons
Your credibility just flew out the window, if for no other reason that someone (Colin Powell, for instance) in the Administration would have squealed by now.
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All mammals have hair.
Whales are mammals.
Therefore, whales have hair.
Shave the whales!