Sunday, October 8, 2017

Logic v emotion

Logic: Schools have been completely redesigned over the past thirty to forty years to benefit the learning style of girls (cooperative group work versus individual work). 

Logic: Girls make up almost 60% of college students (or perhaps that is college students who graduate with degrees, I can't remember).

Emotion: But I had a professor in college physics who said that I would probably fail because I was a girl.

Not sure how one anecdotal data point about someone who clearly was ignorant about statistics and the concept of averages regardless of how brilliant he may have been in physics refutes decades of changing educational philosophy.

Reality?  Girls are on average worse at math and science and better at things involving interpersonal relationships.  Boys are on average better at math and science and worse at things involving interpersonal relationships.  Try having that discussion with a girl. 

Whoops, of course I meant to say an average girl.

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