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To: Norski
It mentioned that girls are more likely to take "AP/Honors" math courses in high school. This phrasing seems designed to evoke a "Oh, poor boys!" reaction, because the real data on AP exams is:

Female and male students took AP exams in calculus AB, statistics and chemistry at roughly the same rates in 2013. However, males were more likely to take advanced level AP exams, including calculus BC, physics B and physics C.

The site didn't show scores by sex, and I'm not going to go hunting for it. It suffices to say that this is probably not the only tendentious formulation in the piece of propaganda.

Please not that I am not using the term "propaganda" to mean "something that is inaccurate. I am using it in its true mean of "communication that is intended to create a specific belief in the consumer."

15 posted on 12/26/2019 1:46:22 PM PST by Tax-chick ("We should find strength and pride in being an idol-smashing people." ~ Bari Weiss)
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To: Tax-chick

“communication that is intended to create a specific belief in the consumer.”

I see. Thank you.

- N.


19 posted on 12/26/2019 1:57:51 PM PST by Norski
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To: Tax-chick

All good points in your #15.

Why did the men of the Greatest Generation walk the straight and narrow without being very religious. By being on that path they avoided many pitfalls of later generations. I will hazard a guess. To please their religious mothers. They weren’t that religious themselves but their mothers left indelible standards they held to their whole lives.


46 posted on 12/26/2019 7:34:49 PM PST by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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