tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post7820450565727866183..comments2024-03-14T09:50:44.315+00:00Comments on Psychological comments: Are women easily discouraged?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09320614837348759094noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-80534092186342970862015-09-30T08:22:23.213+01:002015-09-30T08:22:23.213+01:00Stereotype threat has more to do with initiating a...Stereotype threat has more to do with initiating anxiety which can hinder working memory and cognition. This may ultimately cause women to avoid activities that trigger stereotype threats.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05237886267229011047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-39265394785782082702014-12-19T21:59:30.307+00:002014-12-19T21:59:30.307+00:00pyrrhus - risk aversion - I'm sure it's no...pyrrhus - risk aversion - I'm sure it's not a unique insight, but this is pretty much also the view of Prof Roy Beaumeister<br /><br />http://denisdutton.com/baumeister.htm<br /><br />Not to mention that great evolutionary psychologist Thomas Hardy in The Return of the Native:<br /><br /><i>"You are just like all women. They are ever content to build their lives on any incidental position that offers itself; whilst men would fain make a globe to suit them."</i> Laban Tallhttp://ukcommentators.blogspot.co.uk/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-36840136951908876802014-12-19T21:52:34.116+00:002014-12-19T21:52:34.116+00:00"women seem to have a well-developed ability ...<i>"women seem to have a well-developed ability to triumph in argument by the vigorous exposition of their cause</i><br /><br />Didn't Kipling have something to say on this ?<br /><br /><br /><i>a photographic recollection of such errors and transgressions"</i><br /><br />I have what I used to call a theory but is now apparently a hypothesis, being unsupported by evidence - that no man likes to admit a possibly mistaken or less than perfect choice of mate, any more than he likes to admit to being lost when driving, and so quickly consigns his mate's errors and transgressions to offline storage, to be retrieved only with effort, if at all. Anything else might call his judgement into question.<br /><br />A woman will keep errors and transgressions in high-speed random access memory for instant recall, be they years or decades old. Laban Tallhttp://ukcommentators.blogspot.co.uk/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-37021363699768149912014-12-19T21:03:12.846+00:002014-12-19T21:03:12.846+00:00It depends what is discouraging. Contmept of famil...It depends what is discouraging. Contmept of familarity applies here. Closer the person, less the discourage.<br /><br />Issue related to math or physics principle are very discouraging to most females.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-20179477630758808102014-12-18T09:28:39.136+00:002014-12-18T09:28:39.136+00:00Don't know. Jelte does quite a bit of this typ...Don't know. Jelte does quite a bit of this type of work, so this paper is one of a suite of methodological critiques. If, as I expect, Paulette takes over these tasks, then we can expect an even greater output. Jelte will eventually return to the sub Saharan intelligence debate, presumably looking at all the studies in detail. I am encouraging him in this.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09320614837348759094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-22090079532275551952014-12-18T04:12:31.262+00:002014-12-18T04:12:31.262+00:00I can only tell you my experience of teaching many...I can only tell you my experience of teaching many hundreds of boys and girls over more than a decade. Girls are much more risk averse, even at the first grade level, than boys. I believe this is a logical result of evolutionary pressures on the two sexes, with boys having to take a lot of risks to gain access to the most desirable women.pyrrhushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06150605108788285274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-44648248822815735532014-12-17T23:13:44.981+00:002014-12-17T23:13:44.981+00:00I wonder how many years or decades back stereotype...I wonder how many years or decades back stereotype threat will hold social / differential psychology?<br /><br />Cognitive priming requires multiple trials and very-well controlled / counterbalanced stimulus presentation, and the effects are only in milliseconds. Yet thinking of grandpa is going to make you walk slower to the elevator? <br /><br />Social priming research sure seems like a house of cards...<br /><br />p.s. I believe Wicherts presented a meta-analysis on this (or perhaps ST in general) at ISIR about 4 years ago. It seemed like it never got published-- is this it?<br /><br />Bryan Pestahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08489662466643928790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-24222710582721915702014-12-17T17:55:36.829+00:002014-12-17T17:55:36.829+00:00"You are told that if you employ a woman (or ...<i>"You are told that if you employ a woman (or an ethnic minority person) they are likely to underperform when given a task on which they are told they will do badly ... At this point you notice all the women are in tears, and all the ethnic minority people are mute with anxiety. From the employers’ point of view, hiring such fragile minds is a dreadful selection error."</i><br /><br />Henry Harpending <a href="http://westhunt.wordpress.com/2011/12/28/rischs-conjecture/#comment-391" rel="nofollow">once touched on this</a>. In short, even when two sets of individuals are equalized in some set of traits (IQ + whatever else that helps worker competence) – let's call the Competence Quotient (CQ) – those from the populations with the lower mean will tend to do worse overall, because they are more likely to have erroneously high scores due to measurement error (luck, basically). This includes women (who are less intelligent than men on the high end of the bell curve) and individuals from ethnic groups with lower means. An individual with a CQ +2σ from his mean is more likely to have scored accurately than an individual +3σ from his/her mean.<br /><br />Of course, theoretically, taking into account accomplishments and various forms of repeat testing should attenuate this and give you an accurate idea of an individual's ability, but for <i>that</i> to work, said credentials themselves need to be equalized. Two graduates from Harvard are probably comparable if their scores are similar. Not so much if one is a from Harvard and the other from some backwoods State U.<br /><br />All that said, this effect on the whole is fairly small – test scores overwhelmingly predominate, and the fact that stereotype threat is apparently rubbish strengthens the idea that women perform fairly, as expected.JayManhttp://jaymans.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com