Comments on: Math gender gap is not genetic

By: Geoffrey Falk

Geoffrey Falk — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:00:00 +0000

I have read Hyde’s study, and there is so much wrong with it that I cannot post about all of the issues here.

For those who are interested, please see:

http://www.geoffreyfalk.com/blog/June2009.asp#5 .

By: The Science Pundit

The Science Pundit — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:11:46 +0000

It seems my corection of the link fail is still in Moderator Limbo, so let me try again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-19yWY901Q

By: CyberLizard

CyberLizard — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:31:47 +0000

I’m always surprised when I hear the whole “girls suck at math” thing. In my own school days, the people who were consistently at the top of the (math) class were the girls. I actually used to think that girls must be smarter at math because they always did better than I. Then I realized I was just lazy and never did my homework.

By: Deanna B

Deanna B — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:45:57 +0000

When my mother entered high school in the late 1940s (Rosemead High, Los Angeles County), the geometry teacher apologized to the class on the first day for being forced to have girls in a math class, even though girls are incapable of learning math and it would be just a waste of time for him and them to try to teach them. So he had all the boys sit in a circle on one side of the class, the girls on the other, and only taught the boys, telling the girls to do whatever reading or needlework they wanted to do on the other side. IIRC he didn’t even issue them textbooks. Halfway through the year he finally got a teacher’s aide who did what he could to try to catch the girls up to the rest of the class, but the teacher was still able to point to the fact that the boys did better on the final than the girls as “proof” that he was right.

By: The Science Pundit

The Science Pundit — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:24:33 +0000

Link fail! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-19yWY901Q

By: The Science Pundit

The Science Pundit — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:19:27 +0000

ScienCentral recently covered this story and even featured your good buddy Larry Summers. :-P

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:09:12 +0000

It would be nice if girls were as encouraged as boys in math & science. I hope the gap will thin out in the generation growing up now, given (hopefully) the heightened awareness of this.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:33:16 +0000

Notice that I have instituted a new category with this post.

By: Azkyroth

Azkyroth — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:50:24 +0000

Or, succinctly... I second that "wanna read the study."