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Girls vs Boys in STEM and non-STEM

posted by martyb on Monday December 10 2018, @01:33AM   
from the unexpected-causes dept.

hendrikboom writes:

In a landmark study involving over a million students, it appears that the reason boys dominate girls in STEM fields is not that they are better than girls at it (the reverse seems to be true) but, perversely, that gender differences are lower in non-STEM fields.

About the STEM grades, which are often abused as an explanation:

A classroom with more variable grades indicates a bigger gap between high and low performing students, and greater male variability could result in boys outnumbering girls at the top and bottom of the class.

“Greater male variability is an old idea that people have used to claim that there will always be more male geniuses – and fools – in society,” O’Dea says.

The team found that on average, girls’ grades were higher than boys’, and girls’ grades were less variable than boys’.

But girls' and boys' variability were much closer in non-STEM fields.

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• Re:Another gut-punch to bigotsRe:Another gut-punch to bigots (Score: 1, Informative) by idiot_king on Monday December 10 2018, @02:27AM (1 child)

  by idiot_king (6587) on Monday December 10 2018, @02:27AM (#772201)

  It's not just them, but in my experience they're the ones most explicit about it. Regular ol' classic sexism is implicit about it.
  "Oh you're a woman? Let me take care of that." With that being some task which said woman is completely qualified for.
  I'm starting to call these Petersonites, Dawkinites et al "neo-bigots" because they're bigots except actually honest about their bigotry and emboldened by their conception of "free speech" and "the marketplace of ideas" and whatever other garbage they tout as being superior.

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• Re:Another gut-punch to bigots(Score: 2) by EventH0rizon on Wednesday December 12 2018, @05:34AM

  by EventH0rizon (936) on Wednesday December 12 2018, @05:34AM (#773322) Journal

  To be clear, are you really labeling Peterson and Dawkins as "bigots"?

  Bigot:

  https://www.dictionary.com/browse/bigot [dictionary.com]
  "a person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion."

  https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bigot [merriam-webster.com]
  "a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (such as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance"

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