lots of stuff
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OH MY GOD.
In other news, we are in our last week of classes. Craziness!!! I have had so much fun the past two weeks. I have done basically no work, and have just enjoyed being in college. Its been great. Two trips to the beach, tons of time at the Grind and many sleepovers. Oh, and one hickey-fest. Goooood times. I hope this keeps up, and that it will be the same next semester ;-).
i <3 my big. he needs to update more. oh, and i'd like to see him more.
what else?
anne's moving out soon. this is very sad news. i will miss her alot, as i fear i won't see her very much next semester. its what she needs to do for herself, and i totally support her. i just wish it wasn't her moving out.
still single. as usual. damn.
oh, and i'm not going home this summer. i'm living in Williamsburg, working at the real estate firm, and probably a restaurant. and enjoying finally being reunited with peter!!! and getting to be with a bunch of my WM friends who are either living here, or visiting. it will definitely be weird not being home, and it will be stressful to not have the parachute of being home and being taken care of for a while. but i'll be home a few times around vacations. i'm going to Orlando and Cancun in June, so i'll be home probably around the weekends of the 10th and 17th. Then I'll be home early August for a bit before heading to Avalon for a week. Other than that, I'll probably be in the Burg for the rest of the time. This will be quite the interesting summer!!!
Exams begin next week. Gross. Schedule as follows:
Monday - Spanish
Tuesday - Gender and Society
Friday - Social Psychology
Monday - Personality Theory
Wednesday - Philosophy Paper due
Not the best exam schedule, but at least none are on the same day. Shrug.
Then I head to Romania on the 18th!!! Oh man!!! Excitement! Its going to be sooooooo emotional, though. Like, I'll probably cry the entire time. But I really am looking forward to it. It will be an amazing experience for me.
Ok, enough.
Adios!
posted by DanO at 10:16 AM
1 Comments:
well, you can't use a minority to prove that the science is wrong. just because a minority EXISTS doesn't prove that i'm wrong. For a long time, Republicans dominated the House, Senate, and White House, but liberals still existed and were active.
i didn't say men CAN'T be creative or women CAN'T do math; i said men are more apt to dominate the field and mathematics comes more naturally to those who have a higher capacity for spatial reasoning. and that means men.
Even the government knows this. You can't deny that men are better at math and women are better at verbal reasoning, because statistically it is true. I have several articles you can check out the abstracts of; for instance, Nora S. Newcomb's "Taking Science Seriously: Straight Thinking about Spatial Sex Differences" (the website won't post, but if you want it, i can forward it to you).
she proved that men are more able and better at mentally rotating an object than women by a half standard deviation or more.
Quote: "Studies using standardized tests have found support for the belief that men have strengths in the spatial domain, sometimes quite marked strengths."
Quote: "There are similarly substantial sex-related differences on tests of mechanical reasoning, which involve a large spatial component (Feingold, 1995). "
Quote: "Men outnumber women by especially large ratios at the highest levels of these abilities."
Quote: "Such differences have been found to be relevant to success in science for men and women, both because mathematical ability may rest partially on spatial ability (Casey, Nuttall, & Pezaris, 1997, 2001) and also because spatial visualization is directly relevant to achievement in many scientific and technical fields, including physical science, mathematics, computer science, and engineering (Shea, Lubinski, &. Benbow, 2001)."
these are statistical and scientific facts. men outnumber and outperform women when it comes to applied mathematical reasoning.
yes, there are plenty of brilliant female physicists. BUT how many brilliant female physicists compared to ALL male physicists?
what's more, what brain processes are used when FEMALES are doing math versus when MALES are doing math?
the government SPECIFICALLY altered the SAT on purpose, for these reasons. they added a writing section FOR GIRLS because males typically outperform females on the SAT due to the heavy emphasis on mathematics. Literally, they added a writing section so girls would do better on the test.
in conclusion, biologically, statistically, men are better at math and women are better at verbal skills. period.
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