Posted on 07/29/2008 7:58:19 PM PDT by neverdem
Solve The particular solution.
Y” + 4 = Cos3t
Y”(0) = 0
Y’(0) = 0
Because girls have cooties and don’t have red blood but rather a dark oily substance that sucks that souls out of men? Also they tend to be incredibly evil and deceptive and are able to trick large amounts of money out of my pocket with little effort.
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My mom did my math homework for me.
I better not showing this article to my engineer wife. She does coding which is nothing else but math.
Larry Summers is vindicated!
in all fairness, they did rig the test in the mid-90’s to increase scores vs. the same performance in previous years.
is it I or is there something incorrect with this graph?
(I’m colorblind)
Looks like when the dumbed down the SAT 15 years ago, they dumbed down the math portion moreso than the non-math portion.
They use to call them witches. ;-0)
That’s why we don’t have to be good at math.
Didn’t Mattel get in trouble with feminazis back in the 80’s when one of their talking Barbie dolls’ recorded sayings was “Math is hard”?
i thought they’d just established that girls do as well in math as boys.
This dynamic has been known, across a variety of measures, for a while. Almost all metrics are more narrowly peaked for females compared to males - including physical attributes, various academic abilities, intelligence measures, etc etc etc. Say some arbitrary quantity can vary for individuals between 50 and 150 (catching, say, 99%) in the total population, with a population mean of 100. Both males and females will have a mean of 100, but 95% of males will range between 60 and 140, while 95% of females will range between 75 and 125 (an exaggeration of the difference, for purposes of instruction). To those who imagine gender to be a "social construct", this is the stuff of nightmares.
Anyway, this biological reality holds not just in humans - it is true across all mammals (and beyond). Males are the "genetic guinea pigs" of the sexes, to put it colloquially. And there is an entirely consistent evolutionary explanation for why.
Our daughter switched her major to architectural engineering (from architecture) when she found the math and calculus that engineering required was a lot simpler to her than trying to satisfy the whims of the design professors in the architecture department. She’d rather be the one to figure out how to make the building stay up than design on command.
However the scoring or the test itself may have been changed, those changes did not affect the male-female differences over the 31 year period shown in the chart. Males have consistently substantially outscored females in the math portion of the SAT and slightly outscored them in the verbal portion.
That chart would never be printed in the New York Times unless the labels for "male: and "female" were swapped. Only then would the chart meet the Times' high standards for objective reporting.
Mmmmm - um - yeah, ok ......
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