DailyDirt: Math Is Hard
from the urls-we-dig-up dept
Several years ago, a president of Harvard resigned -- due, in part, to expressing his opinion that there are innate differences between men and women that contribute to fewer women in math/science professions. Since then, there have been a few studies on how people deal with math. Here are just a few quick links.- Barbie was just stating an opinion, too: math is hard. But a study shows that girls are performing just as well as boys in math... [url]
- Some psychologists think people have an innate skill at math from birth. But that doesn't mean that kids who are bad at math should give up! [url]
- Chinese speakers tend to memorize numbers more easily because numbers in Chinese are simpler. If English speakers have a harder time because their numbers are weird, try French -- where ninety-nine is quatre-vingt-dix-neuf (roughly "four*twenty+ten+nine"). [url]
- To discover more interesting education-related content, check out what's currently floating around the StumbleUpon universe. [url]
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Nail Polish Remover
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The worst president ever, he can't lead, he can't think and worst he couldn't find his way out of his ass if he tried to.
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Never mind french, check out the Arara peple mentioned in the article who count only by twos! imagine: 8 is 'two-two-two-two' in their language lol...
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And he has bigger problems than constipation, I'm sure.
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"his opinion that there are innate differences between men and women that contribute to fewer women in math/science"
Mike, that is not accurate. He suggested that innate differences may be a factor. He did not say that he thought that they were. I minor difference, but I think what happened to him in the aftermath was unjust so I think it's important to set the record straight.
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Obama
Also this might be a very good time for a REAL third party to spring up. There are a lot of candidates for every presidential election but a really serious third party candidate that is actually electable would be something to consider.
In any case, Obama = NO in 2012!
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Unfortunately, no third party party candidate will ever be electable. At least not at the national level.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law
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Math IS hard for some, and so is spelling.
http://i.imgur.com/79cNP.jpg
1/2 of 30?
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Re: Obama
Obama? A socialist? Really?
Exactly what has he done that even vaguely counts as socialism?
Actually what your country could do with is a real socialist. I think the last one you had was a guy called Roosevelt and you got a legacy of 25 years of unheard of prosperity after him.
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There happy now?
Obama only surpassed in incompetence by his predecessor Bush Jr.
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Re: Math IS hard for some, and so is spelling.
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Re: Obama
None of that matters what would matter is if he was capable of doing something which he is obviously not, he is weaker than Bush even though he is more articulate than Bush will ever be and still he can't lead he has no leadership in him and can't build consensus on anything and can't find his way out of the problems America face.
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I was correct, it is about math, not politics.
Not sure why some people feel the need to thread jack. Possibly no one listens to them and this is their only method to vent their anger. Or it may just be a really bad trolling attempt.
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Larry Summers
Wasn't the president of Harvard Larry Summers?
If so, he never even implied that women have less talent in the hard sciences; what he did say was that in an investigation as to why women weren't proportionately represented in the sciences and math, that the investigation also look into innate ability.
Having worked for an eccentric economist for many years, I recognized Summers's comment as merely insuring that all possible causes be investigated.
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When a francophone hears "quatre-vingt-dix-neuf", they don't perceive "four-twenty-ten-nine". It might be perceived as "eighty-nineteen", though.
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