{"id":339,"date":"2015-08-31T23:41:34","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T03:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fyswomeninscience\/?p=339"},"modified":"2015-09-01T20:27:09","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T00:27:09","slug":"reading-and-assignments-for-sept-2-and-other-class-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fyswomeninscience\/2015\/08\/31\/reading-and-assignments-for-sept-2-and-other-class-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading and Assignments for Sept 2 and other class stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Wednesday, Sept 2, please read Chapter 2 (&#8220;Under-representation or misrepresentation&#8221; by Doreen Kimura) of the text book.\u00a0 Please post your blog by noon on Wednesday.\u00a0 Please try to read your classmates blogs before class&#8211;if you have time, try to respond to one of them, but response is not a requirement this time.\u00a0 (Nice job, Olivia T&#8211;you posted your blog, before I posted this announcement!)<\/p>\n<p>Next Sunday, at 5pm, your first Comparative Essay is due.\u00a0 The Comparative Essay guidelines and rubrics can be found under the Assignments menu.\u00a0 Please read these ahead of time&#8211;we will go over them in class on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>I have added a link to the full text of Larry Summers comments on the blog site, under Background Reading\/Data.\u00a0 Several of you asked me to what data Larry Summers was referring.\u00a0 In his statements about males and females on the extremes of the distributions, he was referring to data similar to Figure 6.1 (p. 81) in the text book (this is only one example of such studies).\u00a0 If you do a Google Scholar search of Xie and Schauman, to which Summers refers, you can see the book to which he refers, to reviews of the book, and other articles that Xie and Schauman have published.\u00a0 Check to see if our library has the book&#8211;I welcome anyone who would like to bring in outside publications or articles to discuss in class.\u00a0 I will create another menu where we can add them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Wednesday, Sept 2, please read Chapter 2 (&#8220;Under-representation or misrepresentation&#8221; by Doreen Kimura) of the text book.\u00a0 Please post your blog by noon on Wednesday.\u00a0 Please try to read your classmates blogs before class&#8211;if you have time, try to respond to one of them, but response is not a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2176,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[288,764],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-readings","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fyswomeninscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fyswomeninscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fyswomeninscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fyswomeninscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fyswomeninscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fyswomeninscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fyswomeninscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fyswomeninscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fyswomeninscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}