Wait a minute! Read this article: http://nautil.us/issue/32/space/men-are-better-at-maps-until-women-take-this-course … Now, why isn't this considered Aphantasia? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia If so, then read this: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-47830256 … If men in tech have Aphantasia. and they do well, then doesn't that make the former test invalid?
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Every time an article on aphantasia comes up HN is chock full of (probably) men saying they have aphantasia. If so how are they passing the rotation test that's excluding women? Also, this means that the test doesn't test for engineering ability, it tests for aphantasia.
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Replying to @zedshaw
I took this class at OSU, it's a lolzy 1 credit CAD/CAM class with wildly outdated tools, it's a relic and needs to go away basically
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Interesting. Which class? The one with the test or the one that fixes the test?
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Replying to @anaisbetts
Amazing. So this 1 credit class can prevent you from going into engineering? It’s totally just for excluding people then, not teaching.
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I think it's a prereq but like, you'd have to be really really bad to fail completely. I don't think it ends up excluding anyone directly, though many people might take it and like despair, thinking it's their Future
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I think that would most likely be the effect. A kind of "chilling effect" on motivation because the course is pitched as "if you can't do this simple 1 credit then you're not a natural", which has no basis in any science or reality. A related paperhttps://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/2/eaau4734 …
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