Have you written about the stereotype threat? It plays such a big part in explaining differences between groups, but to an intelligent outsider there is clearly something suspicious in the claim that if we just tell women they are good at math, the will magically perform equal to men.
And blacks perform equal to whites and so on.
It's as if we as humans just need some magical thinking, even academics who think they are so smart and scientific.
It's strange that this one little trick, of it were true, isn't used everywhere. Imagine how easy school results could be improved if we could just tell kids they are smart and then magically they become smart.
In psychiatry its driving people nuts by the day
Here is a question: Is any part of the woke endeavor not reliant on the blank slate fallacy?
Have you written about the stereotype threat? It plays such a big part in explaining differences between groups, but to an intelligent outsider there is clearly something suspicious in the claim that if we just tell women they are good at math, the will magically perform equal to men.
And blacks perform equal to whites and so on.
It's as if we as humans just need some magical thinking, even academics who think they are so smart and scientific.
It's strange that this one little trick, of it were true, isn't used everywhere. Imagine how easy school results could be improved if we could just tell kids they are smart and then magically they become smart.