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If the PC police could do Fermi problems, they wouldn't be polluting my news feed with inane conspiracy theories. http://www.lagriffedulion.f2s.com/math.htm ht
by amplitwist 14y ago
If the PC police could do Fermi problems, they wouldn't be polluting my news feed with inane conspiracy theories.
http://www.lagriffedulion.f2s.com/math.htm http://www.lagriffedulion.f2s.com/math.htm
- Crake 14y agoHonestly, there are so many studies with conflicting results that I feel like it's hard to tell to what extent there may or may not be a sex based difference in math aptitude. However, I feel like we can't throw out the possibility of it having an effect just because it's politically incorrect. It's bad science to assume you know the results before even doing the experiment. Sex based differences (and/or similarities) are really fascinating to me. I wish they weren't so politicized.
- amplitwist 14y agoThere's another article that makes an attempt to disentangle nature and nurture in the sex gap at http://www.lagriffedulion.f2s.com/math2.htm http://www.lagriffedulion.f2s.com/math2.htm . Like I mentioned earlier, these articles are a few steps above Fermi problems; there are ways to calculate these things more accurately. However, these calculations should agree with the estimates, and the estimates indicate a significant genetic gender gap.