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Liliana
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Posted on 05-20-11 09:18:58 PM Link | Quote
Dunno if anyone has experienced this, but it happened a lot in math classes in school.

You'd sit there and write an exercise, and maybe 5 minutes in, you hear a girl whining and being all like "oooooh, that is so hard, I'm never gonna get it!". And then they'd ask a guy for help because they can't (or don't want to) do this on their own. That happened pretty much every time we had math in school.

Ironically, those girls also happened to have the best marks in tests. I wonder why.

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Posted on 05-20-11 09:28:40 PM Link | Quote
Yeah, people have noticed this, but, uh...
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Posted on 05-20-11 09:51:06 PM (last edited by Reshiram at 05-20-11 06:52 PM) Link | Quote
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Everyone was bad at math, so no. Though girls did whine more constantly about not getting it, guys would just do it completelly wrong and not care about it.

Then again, given everything at my school... Generally guys would just bash each other with trash and draw penises and girls would humilliate each other and scream about whatever rumor was it today.

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Posted on 05-20-11 10:08:53 PM (last edited by Luigi987 at 05-20-11 09:53 PM) Link | Quote
I did notice a bit of this behavior in college, never really thought much of it though.

And most girls I knew were better at math than me, including my sister.


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Posted on 05-21-11 12:21:39 AM Link | Quote
I'm a girl, and math is my best subject. I've known many other female math tutors and teachers, too.

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Posted on 05-21-11 01:11:29 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Terra
I'm a girl, and math is my best subject. I've known many other female math tutors and teachers, too.

Physics major with math minor representing here. Also, I tutor in math/ physics/ chem.

In my experience, the girls who would whine about math would whine about everything else, too.

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Posted on 05-21-11 01:46:25 AM Link | Quote
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It's a case of expectations self-confirming themselves. If you think girls are bad at math, you'll only remember the cases where girls were bad at math.

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Posted on 05-21-11 02:01:46 AM Link | Quote
I have noticed that like 99.9% of computer programmers are male, and a large number of female programmers are male-to-female transsexuals.

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Posted on 05-21-11 07:03:15 AM Link | Quote
There could be a self-esteem aspect of it, too. As far as I understand it, testosterone makes males (or people in general?) more confident in themselves, for better or worse. So, even if they say it's hard, some of those girls can probably still do it, but are just intimidated by the math. And at the same time, some of the guys in the same classroom or are just plowing through it might not actually know what they're doing, but they think they do. Obviously, this is not an overly powerful factor, but it can play a part. Note that this doesn't apply to just math but anything in general.

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Liliana
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Posted on 05-21-11 11:09:14 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Terra
I have noticed that like 99.9% of computer programmers are male, and a large number of female programmers are male-to-female transsexuals.

That doesn't surprise me. Programming is a job which requires lots of patience and thinking. People like me who give up as soon as they're stuck somewhere are not really suited for this job.

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Posted on 05-21-11 02:06:49 PM Link | Quote
Ah. Interesting, Liliana.

Yeah, if I got stuck with a programming problem or didn't know how to proceed, I would usually just give up.

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Posted on 05-21-11 02:28:56 PM Link | Quote
上手に生きられますように・・
Originally posted by MajesticLight
the girls who would whine about math would whine about everything else, too.
Originally posted by Metal_Man88
It's a case of expectations self-confirming themselves.

Add society expectations (a girl who wouldn't know to solve a math problem would be encouraged to give up, a guy who wouldn't would be encouraged to suck it up and do it wrong), how these whinny bgirls are insanely vocal, and it becomes quite obvious what's going on.

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Posted on 05-21-11 03:04:56 PM Link | Quote
I never saw it as them actually being bad at math. Most girls at my school just take it as a chance to talk to boys they think are cute, like me . Instead of asking the person next to them who blurted the answer out when he/she found it, they go to the people they like. This is just my school though, I don't know whether it's the same at all schools/colleges.
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Posted on 05-21-11 03:14:09 PM Link | Quote
I'm pretty terrible at math, but that's probably cause I was beaten down and told I would not be as successful as the rest of my classmates by a male teacher. Coupling that with other confidence issues at the time is probably why I didn't succeed at math as much as I could have. I still passed the NY Math B regents test, arguably the hardest high school level math test in the nation, but that was just barely.

Math just takes time and patience, time and patience I unfortunately didn't have. If I could go back to it now that I actually like myself for who I am, I'd probably be somewhere with it.

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