"A number of scholars have argued that all people are capable of learning mathematics, to high levels."http://www.sapeople.com/2016/10/17/yes-mathematics-can-decolonised-heres-begin/ …
after awhile you begin to notice whenever the topic of disparate outcomes between groups comes up, all possible...
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... arguments simplify to belief in the overriding factor being genes, culture, or circumstances
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incidentally a good point I saw made was that vast majority of all people cannot do this work (strong circumstances...
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...types tend to see red at this but I think they're wrong). so the question becomes why the tiny fraction of men who...
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...are capable is greater than the tiny fraction of women. a biological explanation seems reasonable to me as long...
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...as we're speaking in trends rather than absolutes
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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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