Against expectations, a study finds that female chess players play better against men than women and above their level. In other words "stereotype threat" didn't have an effect. The reason "remains to be uncovered". Any suggestions?

Feyra · 2017-10-20T15:07:03+00:00

"Remains to be uncovered", as if women can't/don't rise to a challenge... If they believe the stereotype that men are better at chess, which of these is more likely:

They'll meekly turn tail and run from the scary opponent.
They'll push harder to make up the supposed difference and perform better than normal.

I'd wager you can take any chess player and see similar results in their games against higher ranked opponents.

v574v · 2017-10-20T15:24:27+00:00

Women's chess doesn't pay as well and has less prestige than non-segregated chess?

kartu3 · 2017-10-20T15:35:38+00:00

How is "playing well" measured?

montrev · 2017-10-20T18:26:17+00:00

there's like 3 or 4 women chess players in the world so it's probably such a small sample size the data doesn't mean much

UNLIKELYME · 2017-10-21T00:43:38+00:00

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