Seriously HN - is this site incapable of ever updating its beliefs in even the slightest way based off of genuine evidence? Ignore the fact that this article is

Seriously HN - is this site incapable of ever updating its beliefs in even the slightest way based off of genuine evidence? Ignore the fact that this article is written on an obviously politcally motivated source - in fact ignore the whole article. You don't need it, since they're providing you with the actual studies backing up their beliefs. If you don't like this view, then your critiques had better be of the articles they cite, not of this sumamry article! I can agree that seeing a grade improvement is not, by itself, enough to get me say we should separate classes by gender here in the US. But if this article didn't make you at least consider that option a bit more than it did before, then you're doing this incorrectly. These are large differences - 0.8 standard deviations increase in scores! They are verified over a large body of students and it was actually randomly assigned. This is great! There are so many questions that I'd pay to have an actual study of that caliber done to answer. Again, it's not the whole answer. Not everywhere is Seoul and not all students are the same. (In fact, the given article agrees: "Our only concern with the article is with its underlying premise: namely, that either single-gender or coed must be "best." We believe that premise is fundamentally mistaken. The single-gender format is better for some students, and coed is better for others,"). I'm not saying you should be completely convinced by every article that gets posted here that happens to have a scholarly citation. But if this site continues to automatically and consistently dismiss these things just as a matter of course, then how can we ever hope to learn new things and change our views? There's something here. "Grades aren't everything" doesn't mean that "grades aren't important," which doesn't mean "this study is pointless."