26 Replies to “If Women Ran The World”

  3. I have just come back from a comprehensive exam of a student in advanced general relativity; a difficult and
    very mathematical subject. There were a total of eight persons present, in various capacities.
    All were men.

  4. This chart seems to sort of obfuscate the information that it purports to show. Wouldn’t a simple chart with two distribution curves, one for male, and one for female, work better?

  6. if the scores were equal, 25% of the women would have been entirely absent from the test.

  10. Nick, you beat me to it. But to a lefty, there is no lie as scurrilous, as wounding, and as feared as the truth.

  11. Yes, but if the scores were for “Barefoot, Pregnant and in the Kitchen”, the women would win that one.

  12. I don’t understand what this graph is trying to show. Maybe that proves the point, whatever it is.

  13. I did a search with,
    carpe diem blog sat scores
    and found a graph that is much easier to understand.

  15. Personal observation: it’s not the people with the highest SAT scores that run the world. It’s the C students. Because social skillz or something.
    Which is a good thing. Running the world is for morons. Advancing it is where the real good stuff is.

  16. Seems a lot of folk don’t understand what “ratio” means.
    I think Kate had better start a category called “Remedial math”, for those folk who like to comment on her stupid cosmology posts.

  17. It not intelligence as much as differentiation of tastes. Women seem to gravitate to personnel interactive carriers, while men like cognitive lone wolf jobs.
    We are attracted by what makes us feel secure, not necessarily what where good at.
    Men & Women both are drawn to areas of responsibility that may differ from sexual dimorphism, or individual likes.

  18. So somebody spent a fortune to figure out that most nerds are male?
    Hey, I could have told them that for 60.97624% of the price which incidentally is $512,361.84 (Cdn) after converting from US dollars and applying schedule 6014-A relevant …
    Wake up ladies.

  20. Black Mamba, it took me a while to figure out what the chart was trying to say. First of all, a ratio is a comparison of two values. They decided to express the ratio as a decimal. A ratio of 1, on their chart, would imply an equal number of males and females would be scoring in that particular range. You will note that as the score numbers rise, the ratio of males to females also rises. That is: more males than females score in the higher ranges. At least that’s the way I understand it.

  21. Oh, I know perfectly well what a ratio is. Just seems to me that the presenters of this chart, when faced with data that did not fit their preconceived notions, went out of their way to present it in such a way as to obfuscate the facts.
    We all know what a bell curve is. Simply show two bell curves on one chart, blue for men, pink for women. That would show quite clearly, maybe too clearly that men’s math scores statistically exceed women’s math scores.
    You could print a calendar with the dates of the month in one long vertical column down the left side of the page, with the day of the week printed adjacent to them in the next column. And you and I could work with that calendar, although it would be clumsy. Calendars have the form they do because they work best that way.

  25. The problem is that white males have purposely made mathematics too difficult. Bastards. How dare they. The solution is to dumb down mathematics. Oh wait, that’s already what they are doing in high school…..

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