Women Suck!

[andrewducker]

Studies have shown that girls do better in all girl's schools than they do in mixed schools.

Which makes this study particularly interesting.

It's hard to summarise more than it already is, but it shows that when women compete with men and women they don't improve their performance significantly, whereas men do. Women competing solely with Women _do_ improve their performance, it's just when competing in mixed circumstances that they don't seem to improve as much.

I'm not sure what's going on, but it definitely deserves researching in more details to see what's going on.

Comments

[stillcarl.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Down here in NZ I'd been given to believe that girls do best in mixed schools and boys in single-sex schools. This is based on the qualifications they receive mind, not any individual tests such as a maze-running experiment.

And that's also based on my memory, so I'd better do a search to see if there's anything online to back me up...

[stillcarl.livejournal.com]

Okay, I was wrong - girls are creaming the boys everywhere, though both seem to do better in single-sex schools. I suspect I got the wrong idea because of the move to have boys-only classes in co-ed schools as a way of lifting the boys' performance - an idea that didn't seem to be considered in the days when boys were out-performing girls...

And speaking of which, this makes for a fun read on the subject...