Debunking the single-sex ed cranks

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It's based on a combination of extravagant overgeneralizations and misinterpretations of psych studies mixed with "learning styles" woo. A good place to follow the adventures of these cranks is at Mark Liberman's "language and gender" postings on Language Log. In fact, I just finished reading Cordelia Fine's Delusions of Gender, which is a good book on this, though some of the stuff she dismantles is a bit old hat (to me at least). Much of the Mars/Venus bunk peddled in the popular media wouldn't pass a neuroscience 101 course.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)04:16, 31 October 2011

Yeah... There are some very real cultural issues in education, like endless studies that show we push boys to "figure out" answers, and tell girls "it's ok, it was a good try". and that even knowing you do it, you will statistically call on men 2/3 of the time in a highscool or university class.

but that's quite different than thinking that "women and men are biologically different (in the head) enough to justify different teaching styles, much less separate education streams.

Damned WOO period. can we just stop all of it now? ;-)

Pink mowse.pngGodotTue pour toujours, et tu veux vivre aussi.04:20, 31 October 2011

Unfortunately not. This stuff sells, big time. It only makes it worse that women are some of the worst offenders in promoting this nonsense. Because, as we all know, it's not sexist if a woman says it!

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)04:29, 31 October 2011

women use 25,000 words, and men say "uugh", and grunt.

yeah.....

Men's brains are biologically programied to fail ever 23 seconds if they don't have a sexual thought!

Pink mowse.pngGodotTue pour toujours, et tu veux vivre aussi.04:32, 31 October 2011

And don't forget, you evolved to like pink!

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)04:36, 31 October 2011

BERRIES?????????????????????

oh for fuck's sake.

Pink mowse.pngGodotTue pour toujours, et tu veux vivre aussi.04:37, 31 October 2011

Hey, I warned you it wouldn't pass a 101 course.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)04:43, 31 October 2011

Yeah, but berries????

couldn't we at least have said somethign exciting like "it helps us see teh color of our lover's whowho to know when he's happy to see us? thus making more babies and survigin better???

Pink mowse.pngGodotTue pour toujours, et tu veux vivre aussi.04:45, 31 October 2011