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Posted on 12/16/2019 6:45:24 AM PST by karpov
Substantial earnings differences exist across majors with the majors that pay well also having lower grades and higher workloads. We show that the harsher grading policies in STEM courses disproportionately affect women. To show this, we estimate a model of student demand courses and optimal effort choices of students conditional on the chosen courses. Instructor grading policies are treated as equilibrium objects that in part depend on student demand for courses. Restrictions on grading policies that equalize average grades across classes helps to close the STEM gender gap as well as increasing overall enrollment in STEM classes.
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It may be true that harsher grading standards in STEM than other subjects pushes out more women than men, but responding by inflating STEM grades so that they match non-STEM grades would be harmful. Non-STEM grades should be deflated, and the student loan market should be privatized so that lenders pay attention to what students study and the likelihood that they will get jobs enabling them to repay loans.
Wouldn’t it be more likely that “harsher grading systems in STEM” push out UNQUALIFIED individuals.?
Unqualified women are being pushed into STEM programs to fill quotas - so of course they are getting lower grades. Another case of academia twisting itself into knots to avoid stating the obvious.
Bingo.
Rule 1 of the Multiverse:
Progressives ruin EVERYTHING they touch.
STEM is hard.
If these clowns start messing with grades, we’ll get Democrat-level incompetency.
I can see it now: “Quantum Physics for Poets”
“Almost Math for Political Scientists”
“Perpetual Motion 101”
Of course, we already have “Elementary Arithmetic for Climate Change Researchers”
No one wants to drive over a bridge designed by incompetent engineers. There are exact answers in math, but not in poetry or grievance studies.
Good luck after graduation. Computers and math don’t care about your feelings.
That Miami bridge collapse killed 5 innocent drivers on the road below. But it a minority, democrat-donating, woman-owned construction and design company.
From the summary: "Restrictions on grading policies that equalize average grades across classes helps to close the STEM gender gap as well as increasing overall enrollment in STEM classes."
This babble advocates destroying the grading system as a measure of knowledge. It repudiates performance. It is idiotic.
It is not academia's role to equalize perceived imbalances between identified groups of people. Academia's role is to advance knowledge by teaching. It is the students' role to perform. And should certain groups outperform others, so be it!
The paper can be summed up as: "Appearance over substance".
An unintended consequence: Eventually employers will figure out women and minorities are not qualified for the better jobs.
Who gets hurt?
The women and minorities who COULD have made it on their own. They’ll be lumped in with the folks who ‘cheated’ to get higher grades.
Yeah.......women engineering students can’t be bothered with all that math stuff.
STEM students deal with studies where 2+2=4 and that is the only answer; 5 or 7 or 3 is wrong, and you get a failing grade.
2+2 in law school is whatever the client pays you for it to be.
2+2 in social studies is a discussion starting point from which no conclusions can be drawn.
2+2 in gender studies is the latest marriage scheme to accommodate lesbians, transgenders, bisexuals, whatever.
2+2 in black studies is racist.
Oh, I think that’s going on now, under the radar of course.
Not surprisingly, that course uses a lot of imaginary numbers!
I do NOT want watered down grading in STEM courses. I worked 40 years as an engineer. Well over half of the projects I worked on were dangerous enough that it is guaranteed that people would die if we screwed up.
I don’t care what sex or race engineers might be. I want them to know their shit! Grade inflation and wokeness caused us to stop hiring ANYONE from a whole collection of big name universities. Their grads were worthless. Even with minders their grads could not do even the smallest tasks without F-ing up and needing someone to fix it for them, and many of them could not understand what the problem was even after a detailed explanation. Totally a waste of time.
Whatever the value of this crap is, it doesn’t seem to help training anyone who has to get a TRUE and FACTUAL answer to a problem. “I feel it is right.” is the BS they are being taught these days.
When did getting a correct and factual answer become racist?
“We show that the harsher grading policies in STEM courses disproportionately affect women.”
Clever use of the word ‘harsher’. STEM courses are not necessarily graded ‘harsher’ than other courses, particularly if there is a set curve in all courses. This is an EXCELLENT example of how to bend the English language to fit an agenda. We must be VIGILANT regarding this crap.
Now to my point - STEM courses are graded more OBJECTIVELY than other course - if you do a physics problem, and you get it right, you get FULL CREDIT - even if the teacher resents that you’re white or Asian (and/or male). But what about a paper regarding allusions to Male Trans Lesbianism in A Midsummer’s Night Dream? Scoring on that can be much more subjective, and that subjectivity cannot be challenged, particularly if Shakespeare didn’t have any of those allusions - so all papers required imagination by the writers. On assignments like that, the teachers can make up for (usually imagined) past transgressions against the races, by simply moving grades around...for example.
It's a helluva price to pay for being stylish.
My son is in 12 grade and want to major in electrical and computer engineering. What schools do you respect?
Never hire an all-girl orchestra!
“No one wants to drive over a bridge designed by incompetent engineers”
Or under one. As occurred not long ago in Miami.
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