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Rachel Tang

Skill vs Interest

When asking different people with successful careers the question, what do you look for in potential employees, every person will have a different answer. Some may say that it is strong leadership qualities; others may say that it comes down to grades….

Limitation of Research Data Blog Post

Why is there such a great gender disparity in the STEM field? Many different researchers and authors list sex differences in spatial skills and cognitive abilities as the reason to why there are more men than women in the STEM field. In Melissa Hines&#…

A World Beyond That of Spatial Skills

With many authors taking a firm stance of either being an incremental theorist or an entity theorist, Nora S. Newcombe takes a stance that incorporates both theories in the conclusions found in her essay “Taking Science Seriously: Straight Thinki…

Sex, Math, and Science – Blog Post 4 Rachel Tang

The most famous and controversial opinion of why there are more men than women in the STEM field is from Harvard University’s former president, Lawrence Summers. Elizabeth S. Spelke and Ariel D. Grace’s essay “Sex, Math, and Science&#…