tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post79800205185709494..comments2024-03-20T13:10:11.477+05:30Comments on nanopolitan: Thoughtful commentsAbihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06790560045313883673noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post-51898898277326637872008-03-15T10:04:00.000+05:302008-03-15T10:04:00.000+05:30The link to the study showing women do better than...The link to the study showing women do better than men is in the liberal arts colleges whereas the IITs, being engineering institutions, are preferentially skewed in favor of mathematical sciences. In that case, how relevant would those findings be?<BR/>Apart from the empirical evidence of women's failure to get into IIT, I have not seen a whole lot of evidence to suggest a similarity of abilities or otherwise, not even after the Larry Summers controversy.<BR/>Also, a recent item on the gender gap in performance titled 'The New Gender Gap in Education' dealing with the oft-noted superiority of female performance has been posted by Gary Becker on the Becker-Posner blog with some speculative insight into the issue.Dilip Raohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18294894305584371011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post-54020335722723393022008-03-15T01:21:00.000+05:302008-03-15T01:21:00.000+05:30About working on important problems, there is anot...About working on important problems, there is another comment by Daniel Koshland (deceased, former editor of Science for 10 years) where he says that <I>you are probably going to spend equal amount of time working on important and unimportant problems</I>, so might as well work on important problems.Wavefunctionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14993805391653267639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post-90107772054691803262008-03-14T21:23:00.000+05:302008-03-14T21:23:00.000+05:30abi, I don't understand why a suggestion is amazin...abi, I don't understand why a suggestion is amazing simply because it goes against the tide. <BR/>an all-women IIT is not practical, not even as an experiment. the costs are simply too much, and i'm not talking about just money here. <BR/>it has been noticed that women do better in tests and exams, but very few even aspire for an IIT that they bother taking the exam up. <BR/>further, a trend i've noticed is women in engineering colleges normally tend to end up at IIMs. this shows that the problem is not with the number of seats or anything... there are simply not enough women interested in engineering sciences. <BR/>establishing a high-end college is too costly a way to get women interested in engineering, especially when there are a large number of people fighting tooth and nail for seats. <BR/>a better way would be to organize something like eweek.org where women engineers go to schools and colleges and getting young girls interested in engineering and sciences. <BR/>that way you don't even compromise on quality. <BR/><BR/>i don't think pratibha patil put so much thought as you or i have when she made this statement. I guess it's just an eyewash, something that shows the gen public that there's some point of her being a woman in power. either that, or she's on LSD again, like the other time she had hallucinations about seeing dead people.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com