Are women worse at math? It’s time to stop asking
Are women worse at math? It’s time to stop asking
- February 3, 2015
- A blog post by Cailin O'Connor, logic and philosophy of science assistant professor, is featured in The Huffington Post February 3, 2015
From The Huffington Post:
As an undergrad at Harvard with (relatively) few resources, I used to make my pizza
money as a guinea pig in psych studies. One nippy November morning, a graduate student
ushered me into a small room where I was instructed to stare at an 'X' and perform
some menial task. Unbeknownst to me, words were simultaneously flashing on the screen,
so quickly that I couldn't consciously register them. When the program finished, I
called the graduate student back in. She asked me to do one more supposedly unrelated
thing: take a math test. [Cailin O’Connor is a professor at UC Irvine working in philosophy
of science, philosophy of biology, and evolutionary game theory. She is a sometime
science writer and focuses on current issues in biology and social science. She is
also an advocate for women in philosophy and academia in general.]
For the full story, please visit http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cailin-oconnor/women-math-and-science_b_6573074.html.
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