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pacome delva

Girls Get Math: It's Culture That's Skewed - 2 views

www.livescience.com/...090601-gender-math.html

sociology math

shared by pacome delva on 19 Apr 10 - Cached
  • "There's a gender stereotype that boys are better at math than girls are, and stereotypes die very hard," Hyde told LiveScience. "Teachers and parents still believe that boys are better at math than girls are." The researchers provide several possible cultural factors keeping females from excelling in math, including classroom dynamics in which teachers pay more attention to boys, while even mathematically gifted girls are not nurtured. In addition, stereotypes may drive guidance counselors and others to discourage girls from taking engineering courses.
  • Nina Nadine Ridder on 26 Apr 10
     
    The guidance counselor at my high school discouraged me to study physics but was very excited when I was contemplating to become a teacher. Maybe I should send her this article...
  • Luzi Bergamin on 26 Apr 10
     
    Oh yeah, real new!! And in the 90s it was obvious that girls are smarter but discriminated, today its obvious that the poor boys are neglected; some years ago female teachers were proven to discriminate even stronger against girls than male teachers and today politicians demand more male teachers... because they would pay more attention to the neglected boys! Great, that's what I like about sociological research, every couple of years one can sell the same old story again and again and again... sorry, I'm in a real bullshitter mood today!
  • Nicholas Lan on 27 Apr 10
     
    gotta agree with luzi here. girls at secondary school in the UK have been outperforming boys for years now after numerous government programmes. As to guidance counsellors - if they were any good at guidance wouldn't they have better jobs?
LeopoldS

Sex differences in the structural connectome of the human brain - 0 views

www.pnas.org/...1316909110

brain BIO neuro

shared by LeopoldS on 02 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 02 Dec 13
     
    it seems that there are indications that we are differently wired .... Sex differences in human behavior show adaptive complementarity: Males have better motor and spatial abilities, whereas females have superior memory and social cognition skills. Studies also show sex differences in human brains but do not explain this complementarity. In this work, we modeled the structural connectome using diffusion tensor imaging in a sample of 949 youths (aged 8-22 y, 428 males and 521 females) and discovered unique sex differences in brain connectivity during the course of development. Connection-wise statistical analysis, as well as analysis of regional and global network measures, presented a comprehensive description of network characteristics. In all supratentorial regions, males had greater within-hemispheric connectivity, as well as enhanced modularity and transitivity, whereas between-hemispheric connectivity and cross-module participation predominated in females. However, this effect was reversed in the cerebellar connections. Analysis of these changes developmentally demonstrated differences in trajectory between males and females mainly in adolescence and in adulthood. Overall, the results suggest that male brains are structured to facilitate connectivity between perception and coordinated action, whereas female brains are designed to facilitate communication between analytical and intuitive processing modes.
  • johannessimon81 on 03 Dec 13
     
    I like this abstract: sex, sex, sex, sex, SEX, SEX, SEX, SEX...!!! I wonder if the "sex differences" are related to gender-specific differences...
nikolas smyrlakis

Men lose their minds speaking to pretty women - Telegraph - 0 views

www.telegraph.co.uk/...-speaking-to-pretty-women.html

science Health research Gender News Psychology

shared by nikolas smyrlakis on 10 Sep 09 - Cached
  • nikolas smyrlakis on 10 Sep 09
     
    a study from a dutch university
  • LeopoldS on 12 Sep 09
     
    I knew it --- we have to fire Fairouz, Nina and Friederike!!! your sheer presence is impacting the performance of the male researchers in the team!!!
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