World Science has an interesting article today about the controversial debate about math ability in women compared to men. Remember Lawrence Summers of Harvard lost his job over this. I’ve always claimed that what he said was true, just clumsily articulated at the wrong place and time.

Basically scientists now say girls can easily make up biological differences in spatial thinking. I’ve been preaching that for years too.

Here’s a peek at the article:

• Girls are as good at math as boys giv­en the prop­er en­vi­ron­ment.

• Males may have an edge in spa­tial think­ing abil­i­ties, which are use­ful in math—and this ad­van­tage may be very an­cient, ev­o­lu­tion­ar­ily speak­ing.

• Deep-root­ed though this dif­fer­ence may be, fe­males can sur­mount it with just a lit­tle work


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