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A female present at the top level of math achievement is not inconsistent with the 3 reasons Summers gave for the (average) lack of females there. It will still
by huryp 12y ago
A female present at the top level of math achievement is not inconsistent with the 3 reasons Summers gave for the (average) lack of females there. It will still be overwhelmingly male at the top and the higher male variance in math ability is not going to magically go away.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 12y agoMight not "magically" go away but if you actually look at the data it vanishes.
- toehead2000 12y agoIm really, honestly, interested in what data you're talking about. Please paste a link.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 12y agoThe AMS commissioned a study a few years ago, and it was in the Notices in early 2011 or 2012.
- jessaustin 12y agoIt's funny though, that some political blowhard can pull a self-contradictory self-serving hypothesis halfway out of an orifice, and everyone bends over backwards to imagine a circumstance in which it possibly could be partially true. Anyone who disagrees with the blowhard had better bring some actual research.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 12y agoWelcome to the Patriarchy.
- jessaustin 12y agoIt's pretty sad that my most salient recent exposure to that (as a white dude myself) takes the form of apologists for a particular stupid old white man who has personally annoyed me for years. Sorry!