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Jake Young is a MD/PhD student at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in NYC getting a PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience. He holds a BS and MS in Biological Sciences from Stanford University. If a volcano were to erupt Pompei-style in Central Park, his body would be preserved in a scoliotic posture over his lab desk. Archeaologists would later conclude that he spent most of his day training rats to perform tricks, until he went blind building electrical equipment by hand using a dissecting microscope. But, still, he died happy...because science is cool.
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Category: Gender
Sorry for the light blogging everyone. It has been a busy, busy week. Some of you may have caught Janet Hyde's latest paper looking at data from the No Child Left Behind Act and math performance in the US. Under...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:50 AM • 9 Comments •
Category: Gender
I often rant about bad coverage of the psychology of sex differences, so it is always satisfying to see an article that really has their facts straight. Amanda Schaffer and Emily Bazelon, writing in Slate, have an excellent article reviewing...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 12:50 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Gender
New York Magazine has an interesting article about fertility in Europe. Most European countries have a huge fertility problem. Since they have gone through the demographic transition, their populations are actually declining. Many do not have the relatively liberal immigration...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 1:30 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Gender
Related to the question of why there is a gap between the genders in math and the sciences is whether there are possible means of remedy. With respect to possible remedies it is often a good idea to look internationally...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 12:09 PM • 12 Comments •
Category: Gender
Daniel Drezner links to two articles with alternative interpretations to the gender gap in science. Both are looking at a female exodus from hard sciences, but explain it in different ways. First, Lisa Belkin in the NYTimes takes the angle...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:40 AM • 13 Comments •
Category: Gender
What an astonishingly useful graphic (click to enlarge, source):...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 2:17 PM • 12 Comments •
Category: Gender
Go read this post at Language Log. It is about race as a confound in interpreting psychological differences between the sexes: On the other hand, the samples used in sex-differences research are often quite small, and are not in general...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 2:25 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Gender
Conventional wisdom + bigger microphone = excellent journalism! High fives all-around for Charlotte Allen who repackages conventional wisdom about sex differences to a degree rarely attained by print journalists. My favorite part: Depressing as it is, several of the supposed...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 11:22 AM • 11 Comments •
Category: Sex
I read this article in the Economist that summarizes a paper showing that men wanting to attract women spend conspicuously and women wanting to attract men volunteer conspicuously. All I could think about when I read it was, "Well, I...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 11:05 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Gender
We have had an ongoing discussion on this blog about whether the disparity between women and men in the sciences is the result of a innate difference in cognitive ability or the result of some social phenomena such as selective...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 12:06 PM • 40 Comments •
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