Brain scans don't lie: The minds of girls and boys are equal in math
cnn.com/2019/11/08/health/math-boys-girls-bra...
cnn.comPosted Nov 8, 2019, 5:17 PM UTC
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I never understood the "spatial reasoning" argument. Sewing and crafting in general is all about spatial reasoning.
"If I want this dress/quilt/embroidery/sweater to look good, how much fabric/stitching/texture will I need?"
Any woman who makes anything with her hands is going to have some grasp of spatial reasoning. I can't necessarily rotate an engine in my mind, but I definitely can tell you how and why the back half of a dress should generally use more fabric than the front.
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The powers that be don't want girls and women to be smart.
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Actually higher math requires excellent verbal abilities (proof writing) and women who try it often excel at it. We generally discourage women before they even try.
Women get lots of encouragement to be in the sex industry though!!!
I looked through your history and you are a typical soulless automaton male. Males are not welcome on this site.
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women who try it often excel at it
I don't doubt this.
I do think it's interesting how we can be equal in one mental capacity (mathematics), yet simultaneously different in other aspects (verbal).
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Okay but grade school math happens at the most prominent time in the development of children. So if we’re telling girls that they’re too dumb 2 do math, it’s negative socialization and discouragement of pursuing STEM. This is the opposite of what boys are getting right now. Internalization of expectation affects how they perform higher level math, on top nurture to understand the other things you mentioned.
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I love the science of brain scans! https://health.clevelandclinic.org/research-on-the-transgender-brain-what-you-should-know/
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...the range of scores for all measures of gender identity was highly similar in Queers and non-Queers. A similar pattern was obtained for measures of gender dysphoria and gender performance. ... We conclude that the current view of gender identity as binary and unitary does not reflect the experience of many individuals, and call for a new conceptualisation of gender, which relates to multiplicity and fluidity in the experience of gender.
Per the abstract, gender is meaningless--as in, it doesn't vary between sexes. I don't want to pay into the article, but I'd appreciate a full link.
ETA: This article cites p-values of >0.2 for both "cis" men and women.
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