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Isn’t this iron-clad evidence of structural sexism?
by Tycho 5y ago
Isn’t this iron-clad evidence of structural sexism?
- jollybean 5y agoCould be that teacher-assigned are more likely to be English whereas standard tests Math so it's possible a difference in subjects. Girls do really well in languages. But it would be interesting to test.
- bluepizza 5y ago> Girls do really well in languages. There is no evidence that proves that girls do better than boys.
- jollybean 5y agoThere is a ton of evidence that girls do better in reading and writing, to the point where it's not even controversial. Here from PISA [1] Also APA [2] It's the same story across cultures, after kindergarten, most girls accelerate past most boys in languages. Boys are generally a little bit ahead of girls in math. [1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342344680_Examining_gender_DIF_and_gender_differences_in_the_PISA_2018_reading_literacy_scale_A_partial_invariance_approach https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342344680_Examining... [2] https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2018/09/girls-read-write https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2018/09/girls-read-w...
- viraptor 5y agoIt's an evidence of a difference. If you can identify what causes the difference, that can tell us if it's structural sexism.
- 0x737368 5y agoNature happens to be structurally sexist, if you haven't noticed.
- bloqs 5y agoThis is the only valid observation here.
- cpcallen 5y agoI'm sure the journal's editors would deny this outrageous allegation. ;-)
- dvfjsdhgfv 5y agoI always felt that the key to harmonious development is first, to acknowledge this fact (by both genders), and second, to agree that because of that, we as a society need to implement some countermeasures to somehow reduce this biological inequality. This already happened in several countries, to a degree. However, there is a counter-trend saying we're totally same and all differences are due to social conditioning - and this creates all sorts of new problems.
- LatteLazy 5y agoYeah, but we live in society and society doesn't operate on "whatever nature says"...
- simion314 5y agoIt could be a personality or some other trait here not the gender, so finding the causation not the correlation would help then understand and maybe fix the issues.
- PeterisP 5y agoOne aspect that I've seen in pedagogy literature is that those evaluations evaluate slightly different things - in addition to pure competencies at a point of time evaluated by standardized tests, teacher-assigned grades are influenced also by "learning process" factors (e.g. diligence and disruptiveness in class) and girls at school age on average tend to have an advantage in those factors or at least in teacher perception of these factors. I recall reading material attributing this to differences in biological development during teenage years which are relevant not only to sexual characteristics but for general body&mind&behavior changes and gender/hormones influence not only the type of changes but also their timing - so adolescent girls are not exactly equivalent in development to adolescent boys of the same year/grade; asserting that they are slightly more "psychologically mature" (or more adult-imitating/conforming behavior?) which affects study performance in adolescent years, and the boys 'catch up' a bit later. However, I'm not certain if this material I read has a solid evidence basis or is driven by speculative stereotyping.
- tomp 5y agoNo. It could be that girls on average score better at whatever makes you do good in teacher exams - things like verbal ability, agreeableness, ... - whereas boys score better (or just the same) on the actual subject matter. The difference could very well be biological (although some would call that "structural sexism" as well).