How long is a piece of string theory?
Posted on 10/01/2018 12:43:31 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
It gets even more pronounced when you consider mathematically demanding disciplines, for some well understood reasons (the effect of testosterone in utero) and some reasons not so well.
For every Amy Noether, there are a hundred Bernhard Riemanns. That's just the way it is. Pretending otherwise is damaging to the discipline. I guarantee you that the Chinese are not doing this.
And publication author credits have long been first-initial, so it's nearly impossible to even unconsciously discriminate when choosing which papers to cite.
The 1st thing you have to believe in is string.
Marie Curie, frankly, is not a very important physicist. She gets more press than she deserves for two reasons: 1) she was French at a time when France was dominating science and math and 2) she's a woman, and women are rare in the field.
There are other posts on this thread detailing why this is so. Women are less likely to be geniuses than men. That cuts them off of the top end. They are far less likely than men to be mathematical geniuses. That cuts them out of mathematics, physics, and a good bit of the hard sciences and engineering.
For every Marie Curie there are a hundred Pierre Curies. That's the fact.
Pretending that this isn't true is nonsense and needs to stop. The Chinese are not doing this. They promote on the basis of meritocracy, not an insistence that there be 50% females in a field that they a) aren't interested in for the most part and b) aren't competitive in when they are.
We ought to have no barriers to great theoreticians like Amy Noether (a much more imprtant contributor than Marie Curie) or fine experimentalists like Curie. But we should not kid ourselves that there is a gender equality of talent in this field. There isn't.
Just the way this is tee'd up give the game away: ...a "highly offensive" presentation about the role of women in physics, the BBC has learned.
Oh my gosh, the BBC has just learned...
Pffft... fake news.
“The 1st thing you have to believe in is string.”
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No can do. I’m an astringest!
:D
Thank you. And that is fact. If a woman wants to do it, fine, but let’s not kid ourselves here.
And there is a lot of similar human inventory data that one must never dare mention in polite company.
Climate scientists?
In universities today telling a simple truth is a revolutionary act that will get you fired.
Speaking truth to power is exactly what leftists hate and fear.
Airline Captainacy (I made up a word), that is the number of airline pilots that are elevated to Captain status, is very merit based. I've been observing this since my son (Ace) started flying as a professional.
For every Amy Noether, there are a hundred Bernhard Riemanns.
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Her students often referred to her as Herr Noether.
I've read a couple of accounts of lady pilots who have done some amazing "saves" with a damaged or malfunctioning aircraft. Clearly merit based promotion is the key.
“Prof Strumia has since defended his comments, saying he was only presenting the facts . . .”
What a sexist pig!
Facts? Doesn’t he know facts are sexist, racist, homophobic...
LOL, gotcha.
Her mind, the important attribute, was unique and wonderful.
I'm proud to know a woman 747 Captain; the first for her airline. She is excellent, I've flown with her.
Her mind, the important attribute, was unique and wonderful.
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Yes, but considering the topic of this thread it’s interesting that maybe the best female mathematician of all time had considerable masculine traits.
>Seems to be happening in all fields. Is there any field which is still merit based? Professional sports?<
How about professional cheerleaders? :-)
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