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05 31 pm Oops I did it again It looks like a couple of people

Summary: 05 31 pm Oops I did it again It looks like a couple of people have their panties twisted in a knot over my recent remarks over women not being able to do mathematics Now if you saw and the nature of it it is clear to most that the comments were made as a joke So instead of making this post a big long apology to all the women I offended I m going to go the opposite direction I m going to defend my statement that women are not as good at math as men When you look through the history of algebra you will learn the names of many great mathematicians Omar Khayyam Zhu Shijie Mahavira and Rene Descartes are all credited with their historic discoveries in algebra If we look at calculus Sir Issac Newton and Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss are the fathers of calculus Much credit is still given to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann But when talking about great mathematicians of all time you must not forget the works of Archimedes and Leonhard Euler Do you know what all of them have in common They are all men Now doubters would point out that this just proves that women were held back centuries ago from learning mathematics In many cases they could use that excuse So let s go to modern day testing The SAT Reasoning Test began back in 1972 and continues to this day Any high school student who wanted to get into a good college has taken this test What do the scores show Though if you read down further you see that Asians Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders scored over 40 points higher than whites But how about in the real world How do women fit into careers that require a strong background in mathematics like engineering According to the National Science Foundation women only make up 22 of all graduates with an engineering degree and 23 of all those with a computer information sciences degree Physical and related sciences are no different where men outnumber women 2 to 1 and in mathematics statistics 3 to 2 What s even worse is that after college women only make up 11 of engineers and 26 of all mathematical computer scientists And the higher the salaries in these occupations the fewer women one would see Does this mean that women are completely retarded when it comes to mathematics Absolutely not Emmy Noether is labeled as the most important woman in mathematics just ask anyone with a physics degree From personal experience I can tell you that the best student in my calculus class last fall was a female who was majoring in architecture But a few rare examples do not discount the fact that men do better in mathematics in school and go further in careers that require a strong background in mathematics Current Mood 05 31 pm Oops I did it again It looks like a couple of people have their panties twisted in a knot over my recent remarks over women not being able to do mathematics Now if you saw and the nature of it it is clear to most that the comments were made as a joke So instead of making this post a big long apology to all the women I offended I m going to go the opposite direction I m going to defend my statement that women are not as good at math as men When you look through the history of algebra you will learn the names of many great mathematicians Omar Khayyam Zhu Shijie Mahavira and Rene Descartes are all credited with their historic discoveries in algebra If we look at calculus Sir Issac Newton and Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss are the fathers of calculus Much credit is still given to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann But when talking about great mathematicians of all time you must not forget the works of Archimedes and Leonhard Euler Do you know what all of them have in common They are all men Now doubters would point out that this just proves that women were held back centuries ago from learning mathematics In many cases they could use that excuse So let s go to modern day testing The SAT Reasoning Test began back in 1972 and continues to this day Any high school student who wanted to get into a good college has taken this test What do the scores show Though if you read down further you see that Asians Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders scored over 40 points higher than whites But how about in the real world How do women fit into careers that require a strong background in mathematics like engineering According to the National Science Foundation women only make up 22 of all graduates with an engineering degree and 23 of all those with a computer information sciences degree Physical and related sciences are no different where men outnumber women 2 to 1 and in mathematics statistics 3 to 2 What s even worse is that after college women only make up 11 of engineers and 26 of all mathematical computer scientists And the higher the salaries in these occupations the fewer women one would see Does this mean that women are completely retarded when it comes to mathematics Absolutely not Emmy Noether is labeled as the most important woman in mathematics just ask anyone with a physics degree From personal experience I can tell you that the best student in my calculus class last fall was a female who was majoring in architecture But a few rare examples do not discount the fact that men do better in mathematics in school and go further in careers that require a strong background in mathematics Current Mood

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