If you combine that with the proportion of females in high level academic jobs you get a pretty clear picture: Females are encouraged to ask experts for help whilst somehow being discouraged from becoming experts themselves.
Female strangers get better response rates when e-mailing professors
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Re: Female strangers get better response rates when e-mailing professors
#32For females, don't get too excited.
If you're pretty, sexy, and all that, they will continue to respond you, and supported you in every endeavor. But, if you're not pretty, you would be judged only by your appearance. Not your brain.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
How does that follow? Or do you intend to say that the observed effect is just a facet of a more general effect?
I'd say that in general: * Women are *far* better at communication than men * Men are more likely to respond to women, than women are likely to respond to men. I don't know who this is news to though.
Your argument is indeed not new; I was just somewhat surprised to see "corollary: " mean "this is a corollary of " instead of " is a corollary of this". I see that you meant the first.
EDIT: sorry if this sounds unnecessarily snippy; I honestly wondered if you meant the second.
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#34For females, don't get too excited. If you're pretty, sexy, and all that, they will continue to respond you, and supported you in every endeavor. But, if you're not pretty, you would be judged only by your appearance. Not your brain.
Really? Everyone?
Can you back up this gigantic generalization, or is this simply rampant cynicism?
I know people of both sexes who judge people on appearances, but most folks I've dealt with don't let that get in the way.
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#36In other interesting news: kids like candy.
Contrary to popular belief though, babies much prefer milk (breast or formula) to candy. So finding a baby with candy to 'take' may prove to be a difficult proposition (for varying definitions of 'baby', I suppose).
Candy in the possession of a baby is also likely to be covered in drool. Considering its inexpensiveness, why not just buy candy?
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#37For females, don't get too excited. If you're pretty, sexy, and all that, they will continue to respond you, and supported you in every endeavor. But, if you're not pretty, you would be judged only by your appearance. Not your brain.
Really? Everyone? Can you back up this gigantic generalization, or is this simply rampant cynicism? I know people of both sexes who judge people on appearances, but most folks I've dealt with don't let that get in the way.
Isn't that the point of this article?
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#38My first interpretation of this data is that professors are trying to encourage young women to get interested in their field, and therefore subconsciously giving them more resources, but that is probably because there are so few women in the fields I study. It would be nice to know what areas of research contained the studied professors, but I don't want to read all those comments. Also, a sample size of several doze…
Several dozen is plenty if the effect is strong. He claims it is.
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#39So I've TA'ed for a little while now and I think the answer isn't anything fundamental how women are regarded or how man are being biased against. Men rarely, if ever, act as grateful as women when you help them. There's a long list of potential reasons for this, but I've found it nearly universally to be the case. Even though it's not politically correct, you're more likely to help the person who will thank you sinc…
By "act grateful" you mean, she will (deliberately) mimic the signals that she finds you attractive, making you momentarily feel good about yourself. It's the same as when the pretty waitress flirts with you. She flirts with everyone, and gets good tips. A man will simply say "cheers" and buy you a pint. What do you expect him to do?
Actually, I mean that she will say "Thank you so much!" on the way out of the door.
If I was going to TA to get hit on, I would probably TA something besides Introduction to Computer Systems. The girls I've dated tend to be more attractive than the girls who show up at office hours, and I'm deliberately cold to women who hit on me at office hours because it's insulting (and I'm kind of a dick).
And if ever there was a student who bought me a beer, s/he would be the first one to get help at office hours without a doubt. The problem is that the men tend to interrupt other students getting help, call for my attention across the room while I'm busy with something else, and just act with a general sense of entitled arrogance.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
So it's okay to be sexist if you aren't doing it because you're attracted to the person?
I'm not saying anything of the sort. The implication that professors are being nice to female students to get sex implies that they are trying to abuse the power of their authority. If they are being nice because they perceive female students as more receptive to/grateful for help, it's a little more benign, no?
Not for the male students who don't get responses from the professor due to the stereotyping.