Posts tagged ‘research’

This post was originally published at Restructure! Some tense and time markers have been updated. Some anti-oppressive thinkers distrust powerful institutions, and end up distrusting the scientific institution and even scientific knowledge itself. However, scientific ...

Females Are Equal to Males in Math Skills, Large Study Shows These studies, all published in English between 1990 and 2007, looked at people from grade school to college and beyond. A second portion of ...

You might think if you put together a lot of smart people, you’d get a smart group, but new research into group intelligence shows that’s not always the case. (For those of you who don’t ...

Courtney is an MA student studying Victorian science fiction at Texas A&M University. She blogs about feminism, geekery, and academia at From Austin to A&M. This post originally appeared at From Austin to A&M. My ...

This Ask a Geek Feminist question is about stereotype threat: What can I do when stereotype threat is playing games with my head? To give an example, I once had to take an IQ test ...

This is part of “Ask a Geek Feminist” series! Questions are still being taken at the Ask A Geek Feminist post – so ask away! I’ve got some general questions regarding dress code… I’ve never ...

From the subverting stereotypes file: In an interview with Sherry Turkle, Christine Alvarado credits playing with My Little Pony for fostering her love for mathematics… (edit: was Christine, not Sherry as I originally published. oops, ...