9th Grade Girls Soldering(alum.mit.edu)
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You can even just paste the URL and it will work. Apparently some clever-dick is looking at referrer information.
Well, of course I don't have permission. I'm a dude, and there are already too many dudes in STEM. /sarcasm
This was a clever comment and arguably a hack. I do not appreciate being down-voted for it. Can we lighten up a little?
In today's world, it's valuable / necessary to teach a 2nd style of soldering as well: using a heat gun and solder paste to manually reflow surface-mount components. It's just as easy as using a soldering iron, and for many cases much easier! And it's the only way to solder modern chips.
Also I agree with JamesArgo, always use lead-free solder.
Also I agree with JamesArgo, always use lead-free solder.
Use lead-free solder folks; I strongly believe we should keep lead solder the hell away from children.
Yeah but have you actually used lead-free solder? It'll increase the burns and also create goopy messes of melted plastic and the tears of children.
How dangoureous do you think lead is? Ignoring its temperature, lead is only danguarous if you injest it (or breathe it). I think 9th graders can handle not stick solder in their mouths and washing their hands when they are done (not that the minute exposure they would get otherwise would be noticable). If they cannot handle this, I have serious concerns about giving them soldering irons.
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Or, you know, leave everyone to their own devices, and let people choose the fields that engage them.
Males and females are not equal, in metabolism, strength, ability, or anything else. They have equal rights, but this does not mean that they deserve equal representation in all fields. Those with the highest merit deserve representation. Trying to fight this simple fact is the height of folly.
Males and females are not equal, in metabolism, strength, ability, or anything else. They have equal rights, but this does not mean that they deserve equal representation in all fields. Those with the highest merit deserve representation. Trying to fight this simple fact is the height of folly.
While it's true that women and men aren't the same, I think that there are good reasons to believe the level of inequality we have now is not due solely to natural inclination. This video of Neil deGrasse Tyson on minorities and science is apropos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7ihNLEDiuM
Until you've demonstrated programming has some biological basis, this 'argument' is absolutely ridiculous.
I think it's less about ability and more about interest.
Right, that's what this fixes.
No, it isn't. You can't dictate interest.
It is trivially easy to influence interest. http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/06/25/more-women-pick-co...
This study is about stereotypes, not interest, not merit, not anything that's actually relevant.
You know what shows interest? A female willingly taking and passing CS courses. Not this bullshit.
You know what shows interest? A female willingly taking and passing CS courses. Not this bullshit.
What you need is a study showing how many women showed interest and then were talked out of it. http://www.npr.org/2012/07/12/156664337/stereotype-threat-wh...
> When female scientists talked to other female scientists, they sounded perfectly competent. But when they talked to male colleagues, Mehl and Schmader found that they sounded less competent.
Could it be that they, comparatively, are?
Nah. That would make too much sense.
Let's blame it on the all-powerful patriarchy, which we can't even prove to exist.
That's not insane at all.
Could it be that they, comparatively, are?
Nah. That would make too much sense.
Let's blame it on the all-powerful patriarchy, which we can't even prove to exist.
That's not insane at all.
It's the same women, in conversations with men vs other women, sound different.
Edit: you're the first person to mention the patriarchy, let alone blame it.
Edit: you're the first person to mention the patriarchy, let alone blame it.
Yes, and the researchers aren't even considering the possibility that these women sound incompetent when talking to men, because they actually, comparatively, are.
They discount the most obvious explanation without even testing for it, and expect to be taken seriously. What a joke.
They discount the most obvious explanation without even testing for it, and expect to be taken seriously. What a joke.
Women suddenly become less competent when talking to men?
Men absolutely dominate in the 120+ IQ range, and high IQ is very strongly correlated with abstract reasoning.
But do 120+ IQ people dominate computer programming?
You're not going to do well in computer programming unless you can reason abstractly.
> Males and females are not equal, in metabolism, strength, ability, or anything else.
More generally, people are not the same (I prefer "same" to "equal").
More generally, people are not the same (I prefer "same" to "equal").
leave everyone to their own devices
Tons of men are recruited to the field, why not women?
Tons of men are recruited to the field, why not women?
Show me these magical affirmative action programs targeting straight white men.
They're not magical. http://www.genengnews.com/insight-and-intelligence/women-sti... You don't need individual programs for men, it's the default. http://jonathanherzog.com/node/129 General trends http://www.businessinsider.com/7-things-keeping-women-out-of... Specific incidents http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_incidents
You do need individual programs for men as a valid counterpart for individual programs for women. Where are they?
I don't need an individual program for men because the industry is a mass program for men. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/09/19/...
How will they know if the field engages them without being exposed to it?
None of us here got recruited into the field, and we still found out that it engaged us, didn't we?
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amen.
Or, you know, leave everyone to their own devices, and let people choose the fields that engage them.
blacks and whites are not equal, in metabolism, strength, ability, or anything else. They have equal rights, but this does not mean that they deserve equal representation in all fields. Those with the highest merit deserve representation. Trying to fight this simple fact is the height of folly.
blacks and whites are not equal, in metabolism, strength, ability, or anything else. They have equal rights, but this does not mean that they deserve equal representation in all fields. Those with the highest merit deserve representation. Trying to fight this simple fact is the height of folly.
Sure. West Africans are very successful in all forms of running, for example. Are you going to deny this?
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