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do we have data showing that men and women who self select into the profession are equally capable?
by ImPostingOnHN 4y ago
do we have data showing that men and women who self select into the profession are equally capable?
- bitshiftfaced 4y agoBest I could find was "SAT patterns and engineering and computer science college majors: an intersectional, state-level study" It looked at Virginian public school graduates. Non-URM (underrepresented minority) men and non-URM women who majored in computer science scored similarly on the math part of their SATs. Women scored 3% better on their verbal.
- jdthedisciple 4y agoYour quote doesn't address the self-selection question. In fact, taking that paper, it suggests that males are about 30-100% or even more more likely to enroll in an ECS major across the range of math scores. For example, among those participants with a math score of 700, about 15% of females vs 30% of males end up enrolling in an ECS major.