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Skepchick Quickies, 10.13

Jen

Jen is a writer and web designer/developer in Columbus, Ohio. She spends too much time on Twitter at @antiheroine.

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  1. Most people in general are better than math than I am. Gender seem sirrelevant, in my case. :-D

  2. ‘Dr. Bob Sears and Fox Friends’ reads like some cruddy local tv show for kids. Was it followed by ‘The Uncle Floyd Show’?

  3. The best part of that OK Cupid article would have to be when they refer to Bobby Jindal as an “openly-Indian man.” Very funny.

    That said, I hope he serves as an inspiration for all of the closeted Indian men out there. YOU HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE!

  4. Well, shit. It appears I was born on the same day and year as Kirk Cameron.

    I guess that video shows that monkeys are smarter than Kirk Cameron. (Also smarter than me – I’ve been opening bananas from the stem up until now)

  5. Being only a delicate flower of a female, with a brain unsuited to all that mathematical stuff, I just couldn’t do any better in maths than A’s and got a mere 800 on the Math II SAT. [fluttering lashes]. So it was no wonder that my teachers kept telling me that I was no good at all that addin’ and subtractin’ and Riemann zeta functionin’. [fanning self to prevent swoon]

  6. It’s literature I don’t get.

    I like the OK Cupid game – replace “homosexual” and “gay” with “politician”.

    My grandfather told me that a homosexual politician would sell out his country in a heartbeat.

    Gays Politicians shouldn’t be allowed to parent, because they will raise gay politian children.

    People aren’t born gaypolitians, so the gays politicians have to recruit.

    Being gay a polititian is a choice.

  7. I didn’t hear the ‘girls suck at math’ stuff until long after high school, but maybe because I’m a guy. My grade 12 math class was about 60% female, and I was the only male in the top 5. Uni was so different. There were only a smattering of females after first year.

  8. The bizarre part is tha in High School, I had the strangest Geomerty grades the teacher had ever seen…A, A, F, F. I did very well on proofs, but the Algebra…no way. LOL

  9. I find the OkCupid stuff fascinating. Sure it’s not representative of the population as a whole, but that doesn’t make it useless. It just means it’s not conclusive.

    I find it especially interesting that gay/straight sexual activity maps perfectly, except that for some reason the top 2% of gay men have had 26% of the sexual partners. What’s going on there?

    I seem to identify best with the interests and personality types of gay women.

  10. Tried the monkey banana method this morning. It worked okay, kind of smooshed the end a little, but it split and peeled nicely. I think I need more practice. I’ll try it again tomorrow. Or maybe switch back and forth on alternate days. Being a guy, I should have no problem developing a good statistical analysis of my data. Or if I run into problems, I can just ask my niece, who <brag> aced AP statistics last year (as a high school junior…) She’s also captain of her high school soccer team and is being recruited by the MIT soccer coach… </brag>.

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