This infographic is quite sexist. When boys are behind it concludes intelligence is the only possible reason. Yet in the next slide it is quick to find reasons like "lack of belief in ones self" when women are trailing.<p>I think the content is extremely polarizing either ways. There are far better ways to motivate women into the sciences without alienating the men in the process.
I really wish people wouldn't use such inflammatory statements as "Girls are Smarter Than Boys". I find all it does is immediately polarise the discussion, and upset quite a lot of people.<p>Something like "Girls do better at school in maths and science than boys", while longer, is both more accurate and I feel a more interesting point to base the discussion on.
The "tech feminist" movement just reached a new level of hypocrisy and stupidity.<p>The creators of this fine infographic seem to think that:<p>- math equals intelligence, especially at young age (they used the term smart and not better-in-math)
- school grades reflect actual knowledge
- women are bad at science because they lack self confidence and whatnot<p>Sorry if anyone, I do think we need more women in tech, but making propaganda is not the way to do it.
This is about as close to propaganda as a poster can get, no? I think if we had a new world war between two highly sophisticated nations, we would have posters like this lying lying in the streets. Apparently now the idea of men being biologically stupider than women is an acceptable opinion. I know we smile at these posters and say in our heads "well they don't actually mean it like this" but there is a bad aftertaste.<p>Personally, I rather like the idea that we are all equal but different.
There is so much ideological talk about these things and nobody seems to ask any deeper questions. If boys are underperforming in school, does that mean they are stupid?
Admittedly, it seems boring. Intuitively we all "kinda" know this can't be true, but who has the time to care about these things? By accident I stumbled upon this, which was a very refreshing take on many downtrodden paths of what is discussed over and over again:
<a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xp0tg8_hjernevask-brainwashing-english-part-1-the-gender-equality-paradox_news" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xp0tg8_hjernevask-brainwash...</a>
The usual story about IQ is that men have a higher <i>variance</i>, not a higher <i>average</i>. If those with an IQ above, say, 130 are much more likely to be men, then it shouldn't be surprising that careers which select for intelligence tend to also select for maleness. What makes this consistent with the story in the chart is that men are greatly overrepresented among both geniuses (who raise the average) <i>and</i> morons (who lower the average).
Maybe we should be concerned that men are underrepresented in the biological sciences. If anything this whole infographic can be used to show there's not necessarily a correlation between grades in school and performance on the job.