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| 1 | Profs say female STEM grades don’t reflect ‘perceived effort’ - they propose that “science educators could redistribute grades more akin to non-STEM disciplines to increase STEM retention.”It's definitely fake news: the linked article cherry-picked the study and misrepresents it's findings. The grade-motivational effect was reported independent of gender. They didn't suggest changing grading practices, they cited that someone else has suggested that. Finally, the people who did suggest that showed that rates of continuation in the field were more affected by grade in men than women. This isn't suggesting we prop up women in science. The linked article is shit and the title misrepr… | /r/TheRedPill | 27/07/18 09:31 PM |
| 7 | Profs say female STEM grades don’t reflect ‘perceived effort’ - they propose that “science educators could redistribute grades more akin to non-STEM disciplines to increase STEM retention.”That article cherry-picked the hell out of the study. Did you bother to read it? They didn't separate most things out by gender, and they didn't recommend redistributing grades more akin to non-STEM disciplines, they just mentioned that someone else has suggested that. A single sentence, about someone else's idea, buried in the discussion. Finally, in that comment where they mention that, there was no mention of gender and that section wasn't about gender; that was a comment about the effect of … | /r/TheRedPill | 27/07/18 09:19 PM |
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