Tollorin
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Age: 43
Gender: Male
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Location: Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
23 Apr 2015, 10:28 pm
cavernio wrote:
lostonearth35 wrote:
I guess the same isn't for girls, or have they just not done nearly enough research about it. There's a never ending controversy that chicks can't do math, and I had a real problem with it starting in 3rd grade where I would cry in class almost every day when we did math. But I've always been really good at reading. I was what I've heard is called hyperlexic. Maybe Aspie girls are more likely to be excellent at reading, but I don't know.
I despise so sexism for these things. Wait, I just despise sexism.
Anyways, part of the reason that sexism is so horrible (or any -isms) is that the perception of how good you're supposed to be at something seems to affect people's capabilities of it. One of my profs was studying sexism and math scores specifically, and she shared some results from her studies one day in class. When girls (or boys) are given tests and are told before the test that girls tend to do poorly on the tests (or vice versa) and the opposite sex does well, lo and behold, when you properly counter-balance the study, find that being told your group will do worse on the test results in the group doing worse on the test than if they were not told that.
/sarcasm Hooray for social beliefs!
24 Apr 2015, 8:38 pm
