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Studying the science gender gap at the high school level

• Kliment 17y ago
  Fairly flat when it comes to details. There have been a number of studies in this direction showing similar results. This one appears to use experience sampling, which I personally have a problem with, since being interrupted and having to answer a set of questions tends to work pretty badly. When I was trying out a similar response system, I got frustrated after the second time it happened and spent as little effort as possible on the questions after that. One experience sampling study that I saw (run in Italy in the form of a mobile phone application administering a questionnaire back in 2006, meant to measure flow) took almost 10 minutes to fill in and had lots of free text questions requiring reflection on personal goals and evaluation of other people's effects on the subject (it's no longer politically correct to say "subject" in psychology, make that "participant"). It did an excellent job at breaking whatever "flow" the subject might have been experiencing. It would pop up at various times during the day and bother users until they filled it in. I wonder how much of a distraction the pagers were in those classes.