PSYC12H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Signify, White Noise, Mondo Film
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Group differences are real this means they are replicable and robust. But st is situational, it is not about your genetics, or the history of your socializing experiences, it is about what happens now, in the moment. That might help us understand some of the group differences in performance. These phenomenon are not just applicable to black people, they also apply to other groups. One such group is women, with the idea that math and science are predominantly male domains. We can see this by looking at the number of women in different kinds of disciplines, e. g. physics, mathematics, computer science etc. Some people have attributed this lack of women in stem fields (science, technology, Women now are the majority of university students, for over a decade now. Women may be less interested in math and science for benign reasons, and not systematic reasons. However, there are systematic reasons, and one of them is st.
