Yang’s essay4
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We do not have strong evidence to support the existence of cognitive difference
Why are there fewer women scientists? People noticed the phenomenon behind the question and tried to give an answer. Some researchers related it to cognitive difference between men and women. True, they found some evidences for such difference. Yet non…
Yang’s essay 3
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Yang’s blog 6: does women have less interest in work
Lubinski and Benbow believe that women have innate low interest to work, which gives them disadvantage in career. They make an assumption that work time is positively related with success. Because women have less passion for long time work than men, th…
Yang’s comparative essay 2 revised
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Comparative essay 2: Yang Yang
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Yang’s blog 3
Newcombe’s article has an unusually neutral position. Newcombe talks about Lawrence Summer’s argument and the negative influence of itsmisinterpretation. She mainly evaluates the interpretation that sex difference of intelligence is biological base…
Yang’s blog 4: debate never ends
What if I asked about your attitude toward Lawrence Summer’s address that women’s innate reasons cause their absence in science? Well, the issue has been debated again and again that even for the same argument, there are lots of different explanati…
Yang’s comparative essay 1 final
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Yang’s blog 3: Is math a gift?
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Is Math a Gift, an academic paper of Dweck, states a brand new angle that it is not the lack of ability, but the combination of entity belief and stereotype makes girls venerable when face academic obstacle. At the same time, girls who believe…