[Parlay44]

I'm a big psychology buff and read this website all the time.

Interesting article...

Why Pretty Girls Can’t Do Math

Quick summary:
So, just as the T-shirts suggest, there seems to be a disconnect between being an attractive female and succeeding in academics.

And, until young girls aren't sold the message that it's either/or, it's likely that nothing is going to change.

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I don't really find this study all that exciting. It's just more of the same-old. Women aren't as good as men in math, and they also aren't as interested. As much as women and feminists may try to deny it, it's simply a fact of life. Whether or not shirts like this are sold is probably irrelevant.

[Wizard]

(09-08-2011 02:36 PM)Parlay44 Wrote:  

I'm a big psychology buff and read this website all the time.

Interesting article...

Why Pretty Girls Can’t Do Math

Quick summary:
So, just as the T-shirts suggest, there seems to be a disconnect between being an attractive female and succeeding in academics.

And, until young girls aren't sold the message that it's either/or, it's likely that nothing is going to change.

Living proof of what beauty and brains looks like




McKellar studied mathematics at UCLA, graduating with highest honors (summa cum laude) in 1998. As an undergraduate, she coauthored a scientific paper[15] with Professor Lincoln Chayes and fellow student Brandy Winn. Their results are termed the 'Chayes–McKellar–Winn theorem'.[16][17] Referring to the mathematical abilities of his student coauthors, Chayes was quoted in The New York Times[18] as saying, "I thought that the two were really, really first-rate." McKellar's Erdős number is four.[19] Her Erdős–Bacon number is 6.

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