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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.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by crafoo on Monday December 10 2018, @04:21AM (8 children)
It's based on grades? I don't know. I can't be bothered to read it, but that seems just absolutely filled with pitfalls and unidentified biases.
Less variability in grades outside STEM ... yeah, I mean I think that's obvious. Language study, classics, and maybe things like archeology might have some real, objective knowledge to test. So much of the rest is pure indoctrination into woo bullshit. Do you believe the right things and do you know the cult's insider language? Great, here is your A.
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @08:14AM (1 child)
Goddamnit. You can't just silence people who are expressing a perfectly rational, discussion-worthy point.
FIX THE MODERATION SYSTEM.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @09:41AM
-1 Troll mod!
FTFY! I just love the smell of social engineering in the morning! It smells like, semen.
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Monday December 10 2018, @09:39AM (3 children)
> So much of the rest is pure indoctrination into woo bullshit
I think calling STEM "indoctrination and woo bullshit" won't get you very far. Mod -1 flamebait.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Monday December 10 2018, @09:48AM
I think our unpleasant craflo was referring to the non-rigorous extra-STEM stuff, like grammar and spelling, which seem to be sadly lacking here at SN. Oh, and History, and English. You know, the "woo-woo" stuff, outside of model trains.
(Score: 3, Informative) by zocalo on Monday December 10 2018, @10:04AM (1 child)
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Monday December 10 2018, @10:25AM
The GGP is ambiguous. That's not how I read it, although it is probably what was intended.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @05:16PM (1 child)
yes, it's complete nonsense. girls are doing better in school than boys, period. at least in the US. everyone in this country even half way paying attention knows that.
boys are training for prison. girls are being groomed to be used by the slave/nanny state as Overseers. to use grades as the $whatever for study of this type is stupid and likely propaganda.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 11 2018, @10:38AM
The real question is why people worship grades and test scores when the standards are so obviously low to begin with. The fact that the standards themselves are abysmal means that meeting or exceeding them is just not impressive. Our school system is a disaster, so excelling within it is no accomplishment.