Boys Are Not Better at Math than Girls, Study Says

I hope someone shows this study to Larry Summers, Obama's Director of the National Economic Council, who stated when he was the president of Harvard that women that lack an intrinsic aptitude for math and science.

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"The stereotype that girls don't do as well in math classes made its way into popular culture in 1992."

Statements like this on ParentDish make me wonder how some of you bloggers managed to graduate high school. (Or did you?) Come on. Is it your understanding that prior to 1992 females were considered equal in math to males, or is it that prior to 1992 there were no math classes? Hmm, if it weren't for the Barbie doll, you might still be wondering about that one . . . .

Because I had 3 brothers, I never had a doubt that girls were at least as capable at achieving in math, given the interest. I do think that there may be a slightly greater tendency for boys (on average) to take an interest in math, and/or for it to click more easily - but this is outweighed by the girls' greater tendency (on average) to effectively focus on schoolwork. In my experience, girls always did better (on average) in math class, but boys were more likely to be geeky about it in the higher grades.

There was once a time when it was popular belief that girls couldn't learn to read as well as boys, either. Most likely, this attitude was fostered by the reality that the need for a sex-based division of labor was greater when technology was more primitive.

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Here is the best proof of GENDER difference in Mathematics -
Twins, a boy and a girl, attended the same school, eat same food past High School Math at six, and College Math at seven Watch it live on tv -go to youtube and type imafidon twins

or read more on SKY News, USAToday, BBC etc
just google Peter and Paula imafidon

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Just read their 25 page report. The data does not say what the title of this article says, "Boys Are Not Better at Math than Girls, Study Says."

In fact, the data does show that the males performed better. The three female doctors who published the paper, wipe the data away by saying that the differences between results must be because of factors such as how girls are treated and the quality of education they receive as opposed to boys.

The telltale heart of the story is right here in this very article, in the words of Dr. Nicole Else-Quest herself, "These results show that girls will perform at the same level as the boys when they are given the right educational tools and have visible female role models excelling in mathematics." The last two conditions, right educational tools and visible female role models" was NOT addressed by the data they used!

In the scientific world, we call the results BIASED and invalid.

It is interesting though, that three authors of the paper were all women, and their findings, were skewed to their own gender!

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It is true that scientists can skew the results in favor of the point they are trying to prove. Just look at global warming studies.

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