The Ada Initiative takes a different approach
The Ada Initiative takes a different approach
Posted Feb 21, 2011 11:52 UTC (Mon) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)In reply to: The Ada Initiative takes a different approach by nix
Parent article: The Ada Initiative takes a different approach
By the way, I heard about an example where "wiping out sexism" was bad. The German Navy let women join (in order to avoid sexism). They also lowered some physical acceptance tests for them, because women are generally weaker/smaller than man. The consequence was that some 158 cm tall women got to climb masts, then consequently fall off, because they didn't have the reach to grab some pole or something.
Posted Feb 21, 2011 19:12 UTC (Mon)
by Darkmere (subscriber, #53695)
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Early social conditioning appears to be the thing, there was a few studies going on about how tone of voice and facial expressions when giving children their items lead them to vastly different behaviours.
Basically, small children are pattern-matching information sponges, and they do cross-channel absorption of information to the point where they decide how to act based on sub-channels that "adults" have stopped noticing to the same degree.
The Ada Initiative takes a different approach
> conditioning) that boys go after toy cars and girls go after dolls even
> before their 2nd birthday.