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As an educator in every course I ever gave it was women who where all shy about bragging they could do a thing that they did for years, while men who watched a
by atoav 3y ago
As an educator in every course I ever gave it was women who where all shy about bragging they could do a thing that they did for years, while men who watched a single YouTube-video on the issue acted as if they were top experts on the field. E.g. girl who single handedly run light shows at a club for years wouldn't say she knows a lot about the technology, while a guy who once connected an LED stripe would say he does. And it always turns out that the girl knows more.
Guys are just better at convincing themselves (and by extension: others) they can do a thing when they can't — and people who can do more things get more money.
But from an employers perspective you loose out if you don't see theough that.
- iinnPP 3y agoYou know, the boys who don't brag are harder to notice in the sea of testosterone. This is one of the reasons that prejudice is so unintelligent and problematic. There's simply zero chance that you didn't have a single male student who could outcompete a female student at least once in any topic. Your eyes were ignorant with prejudice.
- Eddy_Viscosity2 3y agoI think his point wasn't that women were always better, but that a lot times he saw men having a higher confidence-to-ability ratio then women. As with most generalizations, this isn't true every time.
- dgfitz 3y agoWell, GP did say: > And it always turns out that the girl knows more. Even had <i> always </i> in the statement. I don't think logically you and GP can both be in agreement.
- atoav 3y agoExaggeration. It was exaggeration. As explained in the other comment, this is an observed trend, not a universal rule. If male students are silent or don't brag I treat them exactly the same way as I treat female students that are silent and don't brag. In the rare case of bragging female students I treat them the same as bragging male students.
- atoav 3y agoPrejudice is a true danger, but the things I discribed here is about a trend I observe in hindsight and does in no way inform my teaching (except maybe that I try hard to create a climate in which also silent people dare to to talk). And it being a trend means there have been all kind of outliers on all sides and into all directions.