Girls on average are more likely to be competent due to the lower variance in their intellectual ability. Boys on average have a greater variance so you have fewer overall that will perform because there's more that are on the lower end and more that are on the higher end.
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Re: Girls perform better academically in almost all countries (2015)
#282The amount of insecurity in the thread is a little embarrassing gentlemen. Let's be open minded and entertain the possibility that women are indeed more capable and that societal constructs drag down their career opportunities.
Agree. As a white male, I don't feel even a bit incensed or threatened in any way by articles like this.
Moving on....
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#283Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you think it has anything to do with girls having better handwriting. I couldn't improve my handwriting for the life of me when i was in school and got really poor grades from teachers not being able to read what i was writing.
Today, it's typing. I've seen the difference in kids. I think readability may be one issue, but perhaps even more important is that if writing is physically awkward and painful, it leads to writing fewer words and doing fewer edits. My own experience was that learning to type, thanks to getting interested in programming, was game changing. All I can say is that I could write lengthy essays and reports in a jiffy. Sti…
> Today, it's typing.
Not for math, at least not for my kids. I was helping my son with his high school physics homework a few days ago, and IMO his poor handwriting was a genuine impediment to his mathematical problem-solving.
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#284This is anecdotal but I'm sure many people are seen this increasingly. In the past 10 years on the job, I'm seeing more guys make jokes about how stupid they are. Every time they make a single mistake they say "oh my God, if my head wasn't attached to my shoulders..." Then it becomes a competition of who has done the dumbest thing. I know it's just being playful, but you rarely see the opposite. Turn the tables, I wa…
It's the new status contest among men in technical circles.
Who can self-deprecate, feign uncertainty and fake modesty in the most sophisticated way. Everyone is competing for the "nice guy" designation - or perhaps they're frightened of the "asshole" designation - and they're using deception as the means.
It's reminiscent of stale scientific writing where every statement is hedged with endless caveats just so they can't get singled out for overstepping slightly.
Re: Girls perform better academically in almost all countries (2015)
#285Who could have guessed that having a majority of female teachers while constantly telling boys that they were born the wrong sex and should shut their mouths would have an impact?!
I have never heard anyone say that to me.
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#286Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the US, there's a significant gender gap in administration, especially above the school leader level. Also, larger schools (middle, high) are more likely to be run by men than woman.
> run by what do you mean by this ?
in the US most middle, high schools have a top down organizational hierarchy (in my experience, no data on this point but willing to bet on it), therefore the parent poster is asserting that in the US most middle, high school top administrative officials are men (no data on if this is true, not willing to bet on it)
Re: Girls perform better academically in almost all countries (2015)
#287Isn't this considered incorrect nowadays - to publicly generalize a superiority of a group of humans with dimension by race or gender?
It has nothing to do with superiority. More girls are "average" than boys. More boys are "brilliant" than girls but also more are "dumb". It's about variance and distribution of intellect among each sex. A boy is more likely to be a genius or a dolt than a girl and a girl is more likely to be competent than a boy overall.
Re: Girls perform better academically in almost all countries (2015)
#288The amount of insecurity in the thread is a little embarrassing gentlemen. Let's be open minded and entertain the possibility that women are indeed more capable and that societal constructs drag down their career opportunities.
Yet, being a minority male in tech industry, I am regarded as more privileged than white women just because people of my skin color are more successful in tech industry. It reminds me of the quote from The Office "Andy Bernard does not lose contests. He wins them. Or he quits them because they are unfair." If there's evidence that supports my ideology then it's fair, otherwise, there's oppression.
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#289Earlier quoted context omitted.
Having Babies. Really, being a mother is what skews most stats about women on money issues. There has been policymaking about this in a bunch of european countries, and if they are released from financial constrains (handouts, public housing, whatever) they seem to double down on it. Let's face it, working, for most people, is something you do out of necessity. Why do we really expect women to have a similar behaviou…
>Having Babies. Really, being a mother is what skews most stats about women on money issues. There has been policymaking about this in a bunch of european countries, and if they are released from financial constrains (handouts, public housing, whatever) they seem to double down on it. Curious as to what you mean by 'doubling down on it'? You're not wrong in your statement that having kids kills the career of many wom…
Why don't we have universal daycare / preK?
How about increasing the tax credit that goes to all parent, regardless of they choose to do childcare? Maybe for some parents that would be enough that one parent could quit their job and finally have the joy of spending more of their time with their own kid. I don't see why we should subsidize institutional childcare over other forms of caring for the very young.
Re: Girls perform better academically in almost all countries (2015)
#290Some studies seem to have found a bias towards girls when it comes to grading: https://www.bbc.com/news/education-31751672