I v. tentatively think that there's no huge talent gap, but obsessive work on abstraction is much more male.
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you need both the ability (rare, roughly equal) and the delusion that what you're doing is worth doing (rare, male)
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Buried in that article is, I think, an important point: the existing K12 curriculum is crap. 1/
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Especially at attracting students. Everyone I know who likes math does in spite of their early education 2/
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Seems developing mathematical literacy requires focus on a subject that everyone is doing their damnedest…3/
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…to convince you is REALLY boring. I find it very plausible that ability is roughly equally distributed. 4/
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But that it takes a certain personality to keep focused on something that has no obvious future payoff. 5/
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I used to be a math professor. Ability is not roughly equally distributed. Period.
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My actual claim lost in the 140 character limit. I meant average ability of men vs average ability of women.
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Wait... are there people who *actually believe* everyone has the same potential mathematical ability?
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Uh, like in the article that started this thread?
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Honestly, I assumed that was ideological posturing. I figured no one really acted like that was the case.
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