In the article “Taking Science Seriously: Straight Thinking About Spatial Sex Differences”, Nora S. Newcombe discussed gender difference in spatial ability, a factor underlying mathematical performance. Newcombe suggested that spatial ability could…
“Wait, you play World of Warcraft? And you’re a girl? But you look so… normal.”
I have had this conversation, and many variations of it, countless times over the past several years. Inherent in this question are a number of preheld notions and …
Nora, Nora, Nora… Dr. Nora S. Newcombe, how in the world did you think you were thinking straight when you wrote this article? I mean, no offense, but the “straight thinking” as you suggested in your article “Taking Science Seriously: Strai…
Although men are shown to have strengths in the spatial domain, the media has blown up the images of ditzy women and men with an innate sense of direction. They amplify the assumptions that sex differences are biological and fixed, but evidence introdu…
So many scientists and scholars and researchers and media outlets have attributed the problem of women’s underrepresentation in the STEM fields to be a lack of spatial and mechanical reasoning skills. While women have these skills, evidence supp…
by Lillie Mucha
My vaguely-considered curiosity presented in response to the previous chapter – “it is important to recognize that the physiology and hormones in males and females are different” (Mucha 2015(a)) – was greatly expanded on…
Sudoku. A puzzle in which players insert the numbers one to nine into a grid consisting of nine squares subdivided into a further nine smaller squares in such a way that every number appears once in each horizontal line, vertical line, and square. Sud…
Spatial reasoning. It doesn’t sound too relevant to humans does it? Rather, it sounds like a feature that a Roomba (the robotic vacuum) has so it doesn’t bump into things around your house. Despite the technical sounding term, spatial reasoning pla…
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In chapter 5, Larry Summers’ speech on the unbalanced distribution of two genders in STEM fields is once again mentioned. However, what is different is that Newcombe has an interesting qual…
In Nora S. Newcombe’s essay, “Taking Science Seriously: Straight Thinking about Spatial Sex Differences,” she recognizes the misconceptions surrounding the idea that men have superior spatial abilities compared to women. Growing up, I was a stron…