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6/20/2025, 6:50:24 PM
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>I'm betting the gap would be significantly smaller, better grades would lead to more praise, rewards, and incentives for the male half of the student body, further narrowing the gap.
As I said: they are not bad suggestions, but they do not tackle the primary culprit, which is that women tend to 'mature' earlier than men. Men are simply lagging behind and time fixes this problem for most.
>This idea that boys are ADD monsters incapable of learning from our advanced modern learning techniques is a little ridiculous, at most I'd say that the curriculum could use more objective subjects like math and science, which the girls might not score as well in but that would benefit them more in the long run anyways.
I'm not saying it has anything to do with modern learning techniques but more so with living in a very distracting ecology. Didactics are not the answer but more something like taking kids' phones away and doing more work on premises with heightened supervision expecting autonomy. People think of education as a character building exercise but there is little evidence that this is the case. It's mostly a test of who can do it and who can't - and there are more women who can do it at an earlier stage in life.
Don't be confused by male excellence at the tails due to greater male variability. While there are men who are excel in terms of academic performance, there are loads of them who are struggling at even graduating high school. I think it's important to note that schooling tends to be overrated in general; most people forget what they've learned in a relatively short time frame. And not just in high school but even in academic settings. Schooling serves to sort people by intelligence and conscientiousness and if you want equal graduation rates you'll want to reduce the conscientiousness requirements for graduation.
>I'm betting the gap would be significantly smaller, better grades would lead to more praise, rewards, and incentives for the male half of the student body, further narrowing the gap.
As I said: they are not bad suggestions, but they do not tackle the primary culprit, which is that women tend to 'mature' earlier than men. Men are simply lagging behind and time fixes this problem for most.
>This idea that boys are ADD monsters incapable of learning from our advanced modern learning techniques is a little ridiculous, at most I'd say that the curriculum could use more objective subjects like math and science, which the girls might not score as well in but that would benefit them more in the long run anyways.
I'm not saying it has anything to do with modern learning techniques but more so with living in a very distracting ecology. Didactics are not the answer but more something like taking kids' phones away and doing more work on premises with heightened supervision expecting autonomy. People think of education as a character building exercise but there is little evidence that this is the case. It's mostly a test of who can do it and who can't - and there are more women who can do it at an earlier stage in life.
Don't be confused by male excellence at the tails due to greater male variability. While there are men who are excel in terms of academic performance, there are loads of them who are struggling at even graduating high school. I think it's important to note that schooling tends to be overrated in general; most people forget what they've learned in a relatively short time frame. And not just in high school but even in academic settings. Schooling serves to sort people by intelligence and conscientiousness and if you want equal graduation rates you'll want to reduce the conscientiousness requirements for graduation.
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