Comments on: “…boys are innately better at math and science than girls…” https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/17/boys-are-innately-better-at-ma/ Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:24:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: T https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/17/boys-are-innately-better-at-ma/#comment-510488 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:24:14 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/12/17/boys-are-innately-better-at-ma/#comment-510488 Average differences aside, I can proudly state that my breasts and I are better at math than most boys I know…

]]> By: F https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/17/boys-are-innately-better-at-ma/#comment-510487 Sun, 18 Dec 2011 23:26:05 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/12/17/boys-are-innately-better-at-ma/#comment-510487 It’s a rhetorical device used to demonstrate that denialists are wrong by their own lights. FWIW.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/17/boys-are-innately-better-at-ma/#comment-510486 Sun, 18 Dec 2011 04:41:18 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/12/17/boys-are-innately-better-at-ma/#comment-510486 We don’t need to assume something that is demonstrably not true for the sake of argument!

]]> By: Childermass https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/17/boys-are-innately-better-at-ma/#comment-510485 Sun, 18 Dec 2011 04:31:29 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/12/17/boys-are-innately-better-at-ma/#comment-510485 For sake of argument assume it is all biological. Draw the bell curve for both males and females. The overlap is overwhelming even in studies that found a difference. Thus for all practical purposes, it makes no sense to discriminate even if it is all biological (yeah right).

]]> By: daedalus2u https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/17/boys-are-innately-better-at-ma/#comment-510484 Sun, 18 Dec 2011 03:44:48 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/12/17/boys-are-innately-better-at-ma/#comment-510484 What is very interesting is that it looks like this technique might be usable to determine other cross-cultural stereotype threat effects.

What I would like to see is this type of analysis done on US States but in reverse, so as to infer the degree of stereotype threat due to things like race, gender, ethnicity.

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