Comments on: Girls Equal Boys In Math

New Study Shows Girls Measure Up To Boys In Every Grade, More Enroll In Advanced Classes

[toolmangler-2009]

and I have mazda
Posted by Husein_Pasha at 07:16 PM : Jul 24, 2008


So do I, but I prefer my Honda (motorcycle).
India is behind pakistan on my map, ''left to right''. but right to left, so is Afghanistan and Iran, Arabic is read right to left so I guess you are in Iran. ????

[husein_pasha]

and I have mazda

[husein_pasha]

behind pakistan

[toolmangler-2009]

Posted by rational_1 at 07:03 PM : Jul 24, 2008



Good points, anybody else?

[rational_1]

This question is for the sake of getting a discussion started, I am taking no position on it.
"Is it possible that the tests have been skewed to favor the ability of women in math."?
Posted by ToolMangler at 06:10 PM : Jul 24, 2008

I''ll bite by saying .... possibly. What do you think the military did when they realized women couldn''t pass basic training according to criteria they used to assess men? They changed the grading policy. Can''t throw a hand grenade beyond its burst radius? Okay, don''t worry, maybe you can just drop it over a wall.

In any case the average scores aren''t of any great interest to me; it''s the scores of the really bright kids at the extremes that I''m curious about. I wonder if those scores are gender neutral - and I doubt they are.

[toolmangler-2009]

This question is for the sake of getting a discussion started, I am taking no position on it.

"Is it possible that the tests have been skewed to favor the ability of women in math."?

[haoli25]

If this is true, it means the end of ''Clearance Sales'' everywhere!

lol

[samthetvcat]

ugh, it screwed up again:

=(2x+1)(x plus 1) plus x

[samthetvcat]

ugh, the plus sign got deleted . . . that should read:

= (2x+2)(x 1) plus x


(not multiplied as shown below)

[samthetvcat]

---"Interestingly, in the accompanying picture the binomial equation is being factored incorrectly:P"---
Posted by slogun

In the name of women:
=(2x+2)(x 1) x

( wow, that photo''s an embarrassment :( )

[samthetvcat]

---"Women are now earning 48 percent of undergraduate college degrees in math; they still lag far behind in physics and engineering"---

It''s not that we''re not as good at math, but personally I just don''t LIKE math or physics.

There''s almost like this assumption that because there''s so few women in math and physics that it''s a discrimination thing.

[slogun]

Interestingly, in the accompanying picture the binomial equation is being factored incorrectly:P

[slogun]

Interestingly, in the accompanying picture, the binomial equation is being factored incorrectly.

[husein_pasha]

Posted by rational_1
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I`m not sure. there are many men good in these subjects. But yes, the girls are better in literature than in maths

[rational_1]

I thought that the women are more stupid than as when it comes to maths and physics
Posted by Husein_Pasha at 05:02 PM : Jul 24, 2008

Clearly they can''t be more stupid when it comes to grammar and sentence composition.

[husein_pasha]

I thought that the women are more stupid than as when it comes to maths and physics

[rational_1]

Even if the averages are the same, which is what they are reporting, what about the extremes? Are there gender differences if one looks at the top 1% (or bottom 1%) of test scores? Larry Summers may have been right - not a single woman has ever won the Fields Medal, the math version of the Nobel Prize.

[eddom949]

girls = !boys