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So, you say you have trouble meeting girls in Math 55. The problem might not be yours. Researchers at Johns opkins University say they have evidence that females probably have less mathematical ability than males, limiting their achievement in the field.
Camilla Benbow and Julian Stanley acknowledge that differences in the upbringings of boys and girls as well as their different attitudes toward math are major reasons for the very small number of creative female mathematicians--some experts contend that you can count the number of women doing notable work in...
Elizabeth Fennema, a member of the education department at the University of Wisconsin, yesterday criticized the statistical techniques of the Johns Hopkins group. She said their research was invalid because its initial intent was not to study difference between the sexes. "The study was not a study. It was an...
One obvious solution is to orbit a telescope out beyond the earth's atmosphere. More than half a century ago, a German spaceflight visionary named Hermann Oberth suggested that solution. He foresaw the time when there would be rockets powerful enough to carry telescopes far out into the perfect...
They said Johns Hopkins College in Maryland and American University in Washington have been making similar attempts to promote some sort of exchange in the social sciences, but have had no better luck