Change, Technically - Math is for girls
TIL Motte and Bailey:
a form of argument and an informal fallacy where an arguer conflates two positions that share similarities: one modest and easy to defend (the “motte”) and one much more controversial and harder to defend (the “bailey”)
14:00
I think he even said to me, I don’t want to believe that this is true, but it’s like pages and pages of evidence. And to me, of course, I was like, 0 my gosh, you think that’s pages of evidence? I have evidence from 1000000s of students and years of work comparing culture and years of education that says the opposite, but of course, you don’t know that. And to you, this small, tiny, sort of distorted, weird study that’s actually crappy evidence looks super impressive. But you don’t know how rigorous and great all the research is on our side and on the side of, you know, appreciating the diversity of human potential.
Janet Hyde from 2008:
our analysis shows that for grades 2 to 11, the general population no longer shows a gender difference in math skills.
24:30
focus on like people who score at the top 5% of math or something like that. Immediately, that data gets very difficult statistically, because not a lot of people do that. It’s highly variable, you know, compared to looking at those like 7000000 learners across the whole distribution. But we have such a bias to like care about geniuses and care about like extreme results that people will kind of extrapolate from that. And the gender similarities, hypothesis, like some of this research that Hyde has put out, says, a huge amount of the time men and women are more similar than they are different. And yet we fixate on the small moments where we observe a difference. And then we repeat that over and over again, and we publish about it over and over again, but the evidence does not hold it up.
37:08
We find this again and again and again, like achievement tracks equity, and even like the way that we measure and conceptualize of achievement itself is loaded, you know, with all these features, all these implicit choices we made that make them less ecologically valid for some people.
Change, Technically - Math is for girls
https://overcast.fm/+ABKV_IBh9pI
https://www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/episodes/18400124-math-is-for-girls