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(Slashdot) Unlikely New study shows that gender difference in mathematics is cultural, not biological. I'm sure this will be a calm and rational discussion   (science.slashdot.org) divider line 117
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GLove88mph
2011-12-13 03:27:00 PM
All the females i know do the math thing waaay better than i, even my mom who has numerolexia (?) think thats hiw its spelled anyway.
 
Eddie Adams from Torrance [TotalFark]
2011-12-13 03:35:09 PM
Do we really need a study for this?

Any 8 year old boy can tell you that girls are dumb.
 
FloydA [TotalFark]
2011-12-13 03:35:58 PM
i105.photobucket.com
 
sweetmelissa31 [TotalFark]
2011-12-13 03:40:30 PM
As a girl with a PhD in math, I'm getting a kick out of these replies.
 
Shostie [TotalFark]
2011-12-13 03:42:26 PM
1.bp.blogspot.com
 
Speaker2Animals [TotalFark]
2011-12-13 03:47:58 PM
sweetmelissa31: As a girl with a PhD in math, I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

Is this from your college days?

img705.imageshack.us
 
sweetmelissa31 [TotalFark]
2011-12-13 03:49:52 PM
Speaker2Animals: Is this from your college days?

I had the male math majors do that. But it was kind of hard to read through all the hair and rolls of fat.
 
James! [TotalFark]
2011-12-13 03:52:53 PM
biatches be multiplying.
 
FloydA [TotalFark]
2011-12-13 04:00:02 PM
Speaker2Animals: sweetmelissa31: As a girl with a PhD in math, I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

Is this from your college days?

[img705.imageshack.us image 550x327]

I had never found those "tramp stamp" tattoos at all appealing until just now.
 
Tell Me How My Blog Tastes [TotalFark]
2011-12-13 04:02:14 PM
So you're saying she DOES remember the number of sammiches I ordered....
 
eurotrader [TotalFark]
2011-12-13 04:07:44 PM
Leave it to a woman named Janet to say something to make girls feel better without empirical data other than written studies. If Janet wants to be a scientist than does real research she might want to speak to men at John Hopkins that have used PET and MRI scans to show that male and female brains do process math differently. There are other studies at other universities. Janet might even learn an adult male brain on average is 11-12% larger than a female brain. The reason maybe because language and math are performed by different parts of the male and female brain. I am sure if Janet just had a make over and did a little shopping she would forget all about men on average are better than girls at math.

No disrespect to Madam Currie and the few other women that have overcome their handicap to excel.
 
Aarontology [TotalFark]
2011-12-13 04:13:28 PM
Nerds are Nerds.

Their gender doesn't matter.

LET'S GET 'EM!
 
kxs401
2011-12-13 04:24:04 PM
Me a girl. Me so dumb!
 
Theaetetus
2011-12-13 04:42:34 PM
eurotrader: Leave it to a woman named Janet

"Study by Jonathan M. Kane"

eurotrader: Janet might even learn an adult male brain on average is 11-12% larger than a female brain.

www.wwehunks.comi.telegraph.co.uk
^ his brain is more than 11% larger than his brain ^.
You want to make bets on intelligence based on that?
 
RminusQ [TotalFark]
2011-12-13 05:05:38 PM
Speaker2Animals: sweetmelissa31: As a girl with a PhD in math, I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

Is this from your college days?

[img705.imageshack.us image 550x327]

Biatch please, that be physics. I like my math the way I like my thirteen-year-olds.
Pure and absolutely useless.
 
God Is My Co-Pirate
2011-12-13 05:09:38 PM
RminusQ: Speaker2Animals: sweetmelissa31: As a girl with a PhD in math, I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

Is this from your college days?

[img705.imageshack.us image 550x327]

Biatch please, that be physics. I like my math the way I like my thirteen-year-olds.
Pure and absolutely useless.

I like my numbers the way I like my men.
Imaginary.

wait...
 
dahmers love zombie [TotalFark]
2011-12-13 05:10:15 PM
eurotrader: Leave it to a woman named Janet to say something to make girls feel better without empirical data other than written studies. If Janet wants to be a scientist than does real research she might want to speak to men at John Hopkins that have used PET and MRI scans to show that male and female brains do process math differently. There are other studies at other universities. Janet might even learn an adult male brain on average is 11-12% larger than a female brain. The reason maybe because language and math are performed by different parts of the male and female brain. I am sure if Janet just had a make over and did a little shopping she would forget all about men on average are better than girls at math.

No disrespect to Madam Currie and the few other women that have overcome their handicap to excel.

i.imgur.com
Look...it's trying to think.
 
dahmers love zombie [TotalFark]
2011-12-13 05:11:10 PM
God Is My Co-Pirate: RminusQ: Speaker2Animals: sweetmelissa31: As a girl with a PhD in math, I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

Is this from your college days?

[img705.imageshack.us image 550x327]

Biatch please, that be physics. I like my math the way I like my thirteen-year-olds.
Pure and absolutely useless.

I like my numbers the way I like my men.
Imaginary.

wait...

I like my numbers like I like my women.

Irrational.
 
TheOther
2011-12-13 05:11:55 PM
I are innumerate male.

Pity me.
 
eurotrader [TotalFark]
2011-12-13 05:14:03 PM
Theaetetus [TotalFark]
eurotrader: Leave it to a woman named Janet

"Study by Jonathan M. Kane"

eurotrader: Janet might even learn an adult male brain on average is 11-12% larger than a female brain.

The two Authors of the study Janet E. Mertz and Jonathan M. Kane Of course there was a man involved there was math involved. Any bets if Mr. Kane is dating or trying to date Janet? Kane being located at a small school best know for producing PE teachers on pare with Stout; Kane is happy when any woman asks him anything and going along with a nonsensical study I am sure is not even in his top ten stupid things he has done for a woman.

A page for one of the studies. http://www.benthamscience.com/open/toanatj/articles/V002/37TOANATJ.pdf
 
RexTalionis [TotalFark]
2011-12-13 05:15:56 PM
imgs.xkcd.com
That's the problem.
 
eraser8 [TotalFark]
2011-12-13 05:15:58 PM
Obligatory:

imgs.xkcd.com

/male
 
GAT_00 [TotalFark]
2011-12-13 05:16:00 PM
dahmers love zombie: God Is My Co-Pirate: RminusQ: Speaker2Animals: sweetmelissa31: As a girl with a PhD in math, I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

Is this from your college days?

[img705.imageshack.us image 550x327]

Biatch please, that be physics. I like my math the way I like my thirteen-year-olds.
Pure and absolutely useless.

I like my numbers the way I like my men.
Imaginary.

wait...

I like my numbers like I like my women.

Irrational.

I like my numbers like I like my women:

Infinitely repeating
 
eraser8 [TotalFark]
2011-12-13 05:16:37 PM
RexTalionis: [imgs.xkcd.com image 410x211]
That's the problem.

I hate you sooooo much right now.
 
RexTalionis [TotalFark]
2011-12-13 05:18:31 PM
eraser8: RexTalionis: [imgs.xkcd.com image 410x211]
That's the problem.

I hate you sooooo much right now.

Good. Good. Let the hate flow through you.
 
FloydA [TotalFark]
2011-12-13 05:28:55 PM
GAT_00: dahmers love zombie: God Is My Co-Pirate: RminusQ: Speaker2Animals: sweetmelissa31: As a girl with a PhD in math, I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

Is this from your college days?

[img705.imageshack.us image 550x327]

Biatch please, that be physics. I like my math the way I like my thirteen-year-olds.
Pure and absolutely useless.

I like my numbers the way I like my men.
Imaginary.

wait...

I like my numbers like I like my women.

Irrational.

I like my numbers like I like my women:

Infinitely repeating

I like my numbers like I like Fark:

Odd.
 
coco ebert [TotalFark]
2011-12-13 05:34:00 PM
At least in the U.S., studies have shown that boys and girls tend to perform equally well in math and science until puberty hits, then the disparity starts. I guess you could make the argument that there's a biological variable there, but I remember most scientists arguing that it was largely cultural and societal variables that play an important role.
 
RexTalionis [TotalFark]
2011-12-13 05:39:49 PM
FloydA: GAT_00: dahmers love zombie: God Is My Co-Pirate: RminusQ: Speaker2Animals: sweetmelissa31: As a girl with a PhD in math, I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

Is this from your college days?

[img705.imageshack.us image 550x327]

Biatch please, that be physics. I like my math the way I like my thirteen-year-olds.
Pure and absolutely useless.

I like my numbers the way I like my men.
Imaginary.

wait...

I like my numbers like I like my women.

Irrational.

I like my numbers like I like my women:

Infinitely repeating

I like my numbers like I like Fark:

Odd.

I like my math like I like my women:
Discrete.

How do you know that the mathematician is kind of a pervert?
He likes to do Fourier transforms.
 
RexTalionis [TotalFark]
2011-12-13 05:44:25 PM
RexTalionis: FloydA: GAT_00: dahmers love zombie: God Is My Co-Pirate: RminusQ: Speaker2Animals: sweetmelissa31: As a girl with a PhD in math, I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

Is this from your college days?

[img705.imageshack.us image 550x327]

Biatch please, that be physics. I like my math the way I like my thirteen-year-olds.
Pure and absolutely useless.

I like my numbers the way I like my men.
Imaginary.

wait...

I like my numbers like I like my women.

Irrational.

I like my numbers like I like my women:

Infinitely repeating

I like my numbers like I like Fark:

Odd.

I like my math like I like my women:
Discrete.

How do you know that the mathematician is kind of a pervert?
He likes to do Fourier transforms.

Why wasn't the complexity theoretician not into watersports?
He can't masturbate NP-hard.

/Yeah, that's disgusting, I know.
 
RminusQ [TotalFark]
2011-12-13 05:47:42 PM
dahmers love zombie: I like my numbers like I like my women.

Irrational.

Figured the ones like that were too easy. Note, though, that my handle does mean "irrational" in mathese.

RexTalionis: I like my math like I like my women:
Discrete.

This one was pretty solid.
 
yogaFLAME [TotalFark]
2011-12-13 05:50:09 PM
There's something wrong with my Malibu Stacy, too.
 
RexTalionis [TotalFark]
2011-12-13 05:51:01 PM
What does the kinky mathematician have in her boudoir?
Markov chains
 
MaudlinMutantMollusk [TotalFark]
2011-12-13 06:06:43 PM
I don't care if she knows how to add, as long as she doesn't multiply

/or know how to measure
 
GanjSmokr
2011-12-13 06:20:56 PM
urlybits.com
 
opg4740
2011-12-13 06:21:41 PM
photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net

Come on... Do Math...
 
stealingisbad
2011-12-13 06:26:08 PM
ENGINEER/SCIENTIST/MATHEMATICIAN WANT SEX!!!
 
netweavr
2011-12-13 06:32:06 PM
Physics : Math :: Sex : Masturbation
 
Eternal Virgin
2011-12-13 06:36:54 PM
Women don't need to use math because they sleep with one guy at a time. We men need numbers and shiat to keep track of our biatches.
 
kbotc
2011-12-13 06:47:10 PM
I read an interesting study on Slashdot earlier in the thread covering the same topic. It was something to the effect of "Everyone thinks math is important in 3rd grade. As you get older, everyone starts thinking it's less important until 8th grade, where it's mostly few boys who think it's still important."

Does puberty put a damper on our desire to learn math fundamentals?
It would explain the male/female differences (women hit puberty first so men get further along before the loins start telling them it's time to multiply).
 
ordinarysteve
2011-12-13 06:49:27 PM
Eternal Virgin: Women don't need to use math because they sleep with one guy at a time. We men need numbers and shiat to keep track of our biatches.

hahah, i'm assuming the aptness of your name was purposeful for such a comment.
/nicely played
 
wingedkat [TotalFark]
2011-12-13 06:51:29 PM
Eternal Virgin: Women don't need to use math because they sleep with one guy at a time. We men need numbers and shiat to keep track of our biatches.

I lol'd.
 
ProfessorOhki
2011-12-13 06:57:10 PM
Theaetetus: eurotrader: Janet might even learn an adult male brain on average is 11-12% larger than a female brain.

[www.wwehunks.com image 274x295][i.telegraph.co.uk image 460x288]
^ his brain is more than 11% larger than his brain ^.
You want to make bets on intelligence based on that?

I think I see what you're getting at here, but what do we with the leftover parts?
 
StoneColdAtheist
2011-12-13 06:57:29 PM
Came for the math jokes...leaving happy.

Also very impressed with sweetmelissa31. I never finished my PhD.

*hangs head in shame*
 
dehehn
2011-12-13 06:57:36 PM
24.media.tumblr.com
 
Theaetetus
2011-12-13 07:07:04 PM
kbotc: I read an interesting study on Slashdot earlier in the thread covering the same topic. It was something to the effect of "Everyone thinks math is important in 3rd grade. As you get older, everyone starts thinking it's less important until 8th grade, where it's mostly few boys who think it's still important."

Does puberty put a damper on our desire to learn math fundamentals?

No, puberty puts encouragement on us to fall into socially-defined roles.

As the study shows, the gender difference varies by country and social environment. The Y chromosome does not. Therefore, the difference is not biological.
 
Theaetetus
2011-12-13 07:09:37 PM
kbotc: Does puberty put a damper on our desire to learn math fundamentals?
It would explain the male/female differences (women hit puberty first so men get further along before the loins start telling them it's time to multiply).

Also, if this were true, there would be no male mathematicians either. They would merely fall out of mathematics at a slightly later age.
 
Cagey B
2011-12-13 07:10:13 PM
Neil DeGrasse Tyson had a good point about attitudes towards math proficiency. You wouldn't go around talking about how illiterate you are (unless you're on Fark and named eurotrader), because you would be rightly ridiculed as a dumbass. However, it's completely acceptable to tell people "oh, I suck at math".

I, of course, wisely conceal my mathematical shortcomings with these prescription-less glasses and a plastic glow-in-the-dark Fields Medal that I found in my box of Count Chocula.
 
Rent Party
2011-12-13 07:10:46 PM
I love math, but I'm not a natural. I struggle with it. I have to work at it.

The guilt is killing me. I can barely live with my shame.
 
RminusQ [TotalFark]
2011-12-13 07:12:27 PM
dehehn: [24.media.tumblr.com image 451x473]

I don't know if I should laugh all the more or not at all because of all the crazy-obsessive Asian students and parents at my school. They will biatch and moan about A-'s to end. Thank god the school banned A+'s some years back.

wingedkat: Eternal Virgin: Women don't need to use math because they sleep with one guy at a time. We men need numbers and shiat to keep track of our biatches.

I lol'd.

It's his handle which makes that 6.5 times funnier. Yes, I measured it.
 
wingedkat [TotalFark]
2011-12-13 07:17:06 PM
FloydA: Speaker2Animals: sweetmelissa31: As a girl with a PhD in math, I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

Is this from your college days?

[img705.imageshack.us image 550x327]

I had never found those "tramp stamp" tattoos at all appealing until just now.

yeah... almost makes me want one. I could never decide on the derivation, though.
 
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