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I can see why "encouragement and bias" might account for higher male achievement, but not why that would at the same time account for lower male achievement.
by Perceval 16y ago
I can see why "encouragement and bias" might account for higher male achievement, but not why that would at the same time account for lower male achievement.
- snikolov 16y agoThat's a very good point. This seems to be a major point against an explanation based solely on encouragement/bias. In a solely encouragement/discouragement based theory, it might be that for some reason, males are encouraged as well as discouraged more strongly than females. I don't know of any (even anecdotal) evidence of this happening, so I wouldn't bet on it. In any case, the underlying origins of these statistics are no doubt complex, messy and controversial.
- m-photonic 16y agoMales are not a homogenous group. There's no reason why some subgroups of males couldn't be negatively affected by social pressures just because other subgroups are positively affected.
- miri 16y agoMale nurses is probably the most glaring example of that.