Comments on: Are Boys Really More Hard-Wired for Math than Girls?

By: yesenia

yesenia — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:37:59 +0000

I agree that girls cant not excel further than boys but judging by the historical records women are beleived to have to juggle their time, activities, and duties therefore can not focus as well as men. Even from the very beginning of time men have only had one focus and that was to hunt unlike the female that had to cook, clean, babysite, knit, etc. i beleive that this has been geneticly inscribed in our DNA wich has become a modification for our survival.

By: Arianna

Arianna — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:56:45 +0000

When all babies are born, they only have half a brain. This has nothing to do with linear thinking, logic or mathematics. It is hard-wired for basic survival functionality only (as far as we can currently tell). All of the connections from there on out for higher cognition are developed through introduction via environment and the strengths are determined by repetitive practice.

It almost renders later studies moot when one realizes how the development occurs to begin with. To me, the answer seems quite obvious, that ‘training’ plays a much larger role than what initially naturally occurs.

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By: Health Care

Health Care — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 09:20:28 +0000

I think that girls and boys are equal in math.

By: Clix

Clix — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:18:37 +0000

Jack, I think the point isn’t that females and males excel at the same rates, but that as girls are, like boys, encouraged to do well in math and science, the difference between those rates is narrowing. It’s difficult to tell how much is “hard-wired” and how much is a result of socialization.

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By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:50:24 +0000

Martina, don’t cherrypick statistics. That same study found that there were more boys than girls in the top 1%, the interval that matters for stuff like number of math PhDs. Why is it so hard to consider that, given the significant average physiological differences between men and women, the distribution of talent in any area, be it math, writing, or organization will not be the same for the two sexes. The same study found that there were more boys doing extremely poorly at math, so maybe, if both distributions are normal, men just have a larger standard deviation.
This doesn’t mean that women shouldn’t or can’t compete in math or science. There may just be fewer. This isn’t the 1950s anymore, where girls were discouraged from pursuing careers in math and science (although my grandmother was a chemistry major). Women can do science; my sister is getting her PhD in material science at MIT. There just may not be as many of them.

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By: Martina

Martina — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:17:04 +0000

The notion that boys are better than girls at math simply does not add up. An analysis of standardized test scores from more than 7.2 million students in grades 2 through 11 found no difference in math scores for girls and boys, contradicting the pervasive belief that most women are not hard-wired for careers in science and technology. The study also undermined the assumption – infamously espoused by former Harvard University President Lawrence Summers in 2005 – that boys are more likely than girls to be math geniuses. Girls scored in the top 5% almost as often as boys, the data showed.
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Martina