Occam’s Butterknife strikes again
24th April 2009
Steve Sailer is always worth reading.
Who could possibly have imagined back when the solons of California came up with the idea of having a high school exit exam that NAMs would fail it at a higher rate? And that girls would do worse at math than boys? That’s just crazy talk!
Surprise, surprise.
The study by researchers at Stanford University and UC Davis concluded that girls and non-whites were probably failing the exit exam more often than expected because of what is known as “stereotype threat,” a theory in social psychology that holds, essentially, that negative stereotypes can be self-fulfilling.
There certainly couldn’t be any other explanation.
Stanford has a School of Education? Who knew? Wouldn’t it be fun to hear what Stanford’s Electrical Engineering Department professors say in private about the quality of their colleagues in the Education Department?