New junk reporting making the rounds of mass media about new study "showing" how there's no difference in math ability between boys and girls. xNOM November 8, 2019 12 upvotes /r/MensRights A new study did brain scans of 104 children 3-10 yrs old. Their maths test results were the same and they could see no difference on the scans. Gender differences show up later, when the mathematics gets more difficult. PISA and SAT tests show poorer performance for girls. The authors claim that the evidence for a biological cause for the gender differences which show up later is weak. This article somehow was accepted to the most prestigious science journal (Nature). https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/11/191108074852.htm https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7662639/Girls-just-good-math-boys-finds-brain-imaging-study.html NPR's version is more reasonable: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/11/08/777187543/math-looks-the-same-in-the-brains-of-boys-and-girls-study-finds?t=1573249243259 The project leader tells Sciencedaily: "Cantlon said she thinks society and culture likely are steering girls and young women away from math and STEM fields." This claim is at odds with the fact that gender workplace segregation is LARGEST in countries with a higher gender equality index. The countries where girls are the LEAST likely to choose STEM are in Scandinavia. https://old.reddit.com/r/mensrightslinks/comments/5upsub/socialpaper_sex_differences_in_personality_traits/ Also, the gender math gap is NOT lower in countries with a higher gender equality index: https://old.reddit.com/r/mensrightslinks/comments/3n9pf2/educationstudy_sex_differences_in_academic/ EDIT correction: the paper is in a "nature associated journal." not Nature.
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