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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wage gap is a myth (agree)
Diversity for diversities sake is a joke should hire the best (agree)
Women are different than men and are better at certain things (agree)

Anyone not agree with those 3?  [/quote]

I disagree with all 3.

Wage gap is real

Diversity "for diversity sake" is not a joke, we need different viewpoints depending on the job. I am not going to hire a white dude from Vermont who graduated from an Ivy league school to market products to black customers in Chicago, even if his GPA and class rank is higher than the black chick from Chicago who graduated from a Chicago state school.

NO women are not "better at certain things" ... some women are better at certain thing, some women are not, some men are better at certain things, some men are not. I don't think every man would make a better Army soldier than every woman. We need to look at everybody as an individual regardless of their gender.  [/quote]

Outliers don't make the rule.  According to certain studies, men on average have one standard deviation higher spatial intelligence quotient than women.  This domain is one of the few where clear sex differences in cognition appear (likewise the brain structure associated with this type of intelligence, the parietal lobe, differs between male and female brains). However, in some studies, once time constraints were removed, women did as well as men.[b] It has also been found that spatial ability correlates with verbal ability in women but not in men, suggesting that women may use different strategies for spatial visualization tasks than men do.  [/b]Spatial intelligence is often a requirement to make it through engineering courses, as one needs to flip the orientation of objects in ones head to visualize designs, and understand a summation of forces at moment in basic engineering classes like engineering statics.

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That's really fascinating. Can you link to that study?  I'm wondering if I can leverage my DS's advanced verbal ability to help with his lack of spatial ability (he has dyspraxia).  Maybe a more "female" approach to spatial tasks would help him. [/quote]

It is known that men tend to favor a more allocentric strategy (accurate judgments of distance), while women are more frequently egocentric (able to recall more street names and building shapes as landmarks) navigators. Perhaps that might be useful to you?

J.M. Dabbs Jr., E.-L. Chang, R.A. Strong, R. Milun
Spatial ability, navigation strategy, and geographic knowledge among men and women
Evol Hum Behav, 19 (1998), pp. 89-98

L.A.M. Galea, D. Kimura
Sex differences in route-learning
Pers Indiv Differ, 14 (1993), pp. 53-65
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thank you! will look these up.  Do you know if anyone has tried to apply these ideas to math instruction?[/quote]

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