"The countries that empower women also empower them, indirectly, to pick whatever career they’d enjoy most and be best at."https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more-gender-equality-the-fewer-women-in-stem/553592/ …
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Paul, you quoted the weakest point in a piece rife w/ flaws: conflating science/math/CS; leaping from correlation to causation; cherry-picking data to fit a provocative thesis. It buried the finding that “girls performed as well or better than boys on science in most countries.”
What do you mean, "buried"? It's central to the argument. I almost shudder to ask what you think the thesis is.
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Mason, the article’s vile thesis is: “in countries that empower women, they’re less likely to choose math & science,” because they’d “enjoy & be best at” other pursuits. (The pesky fact that girls broadly outperform boys in science is negated instantly by the word “but.”)
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Do you understand that the idea that women are freely choosing pursuits outside of STEM is predicated on their demonstrated ability to successfully pursue STEM?
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Still spitting flame!
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It buried in his tweet what Ali really thinks about the piece.
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