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fwiw my alma mater removed the math requirement for CS to make it "more accessible" to people

• DominikR 10y ago
  I'm in Austria so I don't know every detail about the US educational system, but I can give you some examples of what is going on here. To get a spot as a student in most universities you have to take a test first and only the best are selected. What they found was that there were comparatively fewer women passing the test for medical schools. So they removed many questions that were about logic or knowledge and replaced them with pictures of faces where the student has to read the emotion. (for example: is the person angry or happy?) The reasoning is that physicians need to be empathic towards their patients. It worked and now there are more female than male students passing this test. If I was female I would be deeply insulted by this. They literally believe that women are too stupid for logic related tasks so lets have them answer questions where they have to read emotions from faces.