..says Natalie Portman.
My third post of the week examining science illiteracy and women is now up over at Correlations. This time, find out where fellas surpassed the ladies by 30 percentage points... (gulp!)
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originally published November 2, 2007 by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum
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I'm publicly responding to a particular reader's provocative comments because women-in-science is a topic that needs to be settled. Finally. After which, I'll be moving away from the great gender divide for a while and back to science and policy next week. Here goes.
November 2, 2007
Hello there…
Sheril,
Don't despare. Genders think differently. No one is better than the other. I read recently that that the corpus callosum that ties together both sides of the brain is about four times larger in females than males.
So, you can multi-process, talk in ways that bewilder us guys, but come up with new insights that we were too stubborn to see.
Cal
Natalie Portman is also an author on two scientific papers:
Hershlag, N. "A Simple Method To Demonstrate the Enzymatic Production of Hydrogen from Sugar." Journal of Chemical Education 75(10):1270, 1998
Baird AA, Kagan J, Gaudette T, Walz KA, Hershlag N, Boas DA. "Frontal lobe activation during object permanence: data from near-infrared spectroscopy." Neuroimage 16(4):1120-1125, 2002.