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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Weighing in to say I have a daughter very gifted in math and you would not believe the feedback she gets vs the feedback my other child, a boy who is bright and mathematically inclined (but better at other things and significantly less talented in math) gets. Spoiler: he gets (conservatively) 3x the praise and encouragement in math that she does when she is very objectively more mathematically inclined. And as they get older, her math peers have looked increasingly less like her (largely as a result of the sex bias in encouragement, I suspect.) many of the mathy boys hang only with each other outside of school are aloof and dismissive of kids who don’t look or act like them in mathy settings. I’d say it’s premature to attribute differences in high level math chops purely to biology at this point. [/quote] I believe you. At mid-career, I see more than I did as a young woman.[/quote]
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