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Why women in psychology can't program
"About two months ago my brother, who works in a data science on social psychology data, asked me why his colleagues, who are women and have PhDs in psychology, cannot code"http://neuroplausible.com/programming
I don't know. I'm not convinced virtual classes work without a LOT of work — maybe more work than a brick-and-mortar classroom. So it's tricky.
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Children log on at same time every week and have same children in class and same teacher. Probably requires motivated students as no one physically there to keep order!
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I think, based on what I heard about the OU, that it is very tricky and motivating them is the educators job. They seem to really get it right though.https://twitter.com/morungos/status/1066400681928638466 …
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Solution? - need to offer after school virtual coding clubs in secondary school then all will arrive at uni with the basics already

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The thing is I don't even know if it matters if they know the basics. The biggest problem at undergrad isn't the disparity of knowledge but the fear/male geek trope/internalised misogyny going on. Stop gendering subjects and things might work out well.
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I agree. Even women in tech fields who have excelled at traditionally male subject areas still feel fear.
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The number of times people literally said "you are stupid" to me, not counting the times it was hinted, when I did compsci undergrad...
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That’s outrageous. Another problem is women who mutter it to themselves....
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Not sure that is their fault though, but yes, I try not to ever say that about myself.
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Do you think more work from teacher or students?
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