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What's the metric? Average GPA? Average graduation rate? It seems so. It is well documented that men drop out at higher rates and are in general more prone to

What's the metric? Average GPA? Average graduation rate? It seems so. It is well documented that men drop out at higher rates and are in general more prone to failing. Having a few extra "zeros" in the GPA rankings would skew the mean down for males. It's tempting to say that "Girls are better than boys in academic things", but if you look at the performance of a cohort of graduates, I'd expect you'd see we're all about equal. After graduation, there's a couple other well documented attrition filters for women, unfortunately. There was this old essay about it, which is now quite old and probably cancelled, called "Is there anything good about men" that discussed various life tradeoffs that affected the genders differently.

ipnon 6y ago
On a random individual basis men and women perform equally well at college. On the aggregate there are now 3 to 4 million more female than male college graduates in the US.[0] And now that more women than men are enrolled in college we might expect this trend to continue.[1] [0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/184272/educational-attainment-of-college-diploma-or-higher-by-gender/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/184272/educational-attai... [1] https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d20/tables/dt20_302.60.asp https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d20/tables/dt20_302.60.a...
- jvanderbot 6y ago
  It'd be interesting to see a time when people study why men fail at school, and are a minority of successful graduates. I find it fun to share that my boss is a woman, her boss is a woman, and _her_ boss is too. And they're all at or past mid career and highly successful managers at a world-class technology company. JPL is a wonderful place though.
thepete2 6y ago
As always we don't measure what matters, but what is measurable. There are actually very good arguments against giving grades at all, but it's sadly way out of the mainstream ...
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ipnon 6y ago

On a random individual basis men and women perform equally well at college. On the aggregate there are now 3 to 4 million more female than male college graduates in the US.[0] And now that more women than men are enrolled in college we might expect this trend to continue.[1] [0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/184272/educational-attainment-of-college-diploma-or-higher-by-gender/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/184272/educational-attai... [1] https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d20/tables/dt20_302.60.asp https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d20/tables/dt20_302.60.a...

jvanderbot 6y ago
It'd be interesting to see a time when people study why men fail at school, and are a minority of successful graduates. I find it fun to share that my boss is a woman, her boss is a woman, and _her_ boss is too. And they're all at or past mid career and highly successful managers at a world-class technology company. JPL is a wonderful place though.

thepete2 6y ago

As always we don't measure what matters, but what is measurable. There are actually very good arguments against giving grades at all, but it's sadly way out of the mainstream ...

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