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What is the smartest group/cluster/sect/activity/clade/clan that is mostly composed of women? Related to the other thread on how to get more women into rationality besides HPMOR.
Ashkenazi dancing groups? Veterinarian College students? Linguistics students? Lilly Allen admirers?
No seriously, name guesses of really smart groups, identity labels etc... that you are nearly certain have more women than men.
One of my friends has nominated the student body at Bryn Mawr.
Bryn Mawr has gone downhill a lot since the top female students got the chance to go to Harvard, Yale, etc. instead of here. Bryn Mawr does have a cognitive bias course (for undergraduates) but the quality of the students is not that high.
Of course, Bryn Mawr does excellently at the only-women part, and might do well overall once we take into account that constraint.
And another friend has recommended DC WebWomen.
Academic psychologists are mostly female. That would seem to be a pretty good target audience for LW. There are a few other academic areas that are mostly female now, but keep in mind that many academic fields are still mostly male even though most new undergraduates are female in the area.
There are lists online of academic specialty by average GRE scores. Averaging the verbal and quantitative scores, and then determining which majority-female discipline has the highest average would probably get you close to your answer.
Well, keep in mind that 75% of LWers are under 31 anyway, so it's the sex ratio among the younger cohorts you mainly care about, not the sex ratio overall.
But it isn't the undergrads you're looking for if you want the "smartest mostly female group." Undergrads are less bright on average than advanced degree holders due to various selection effects.
I think we are aiming for "females who can become rationalists" which means that expected smarts are more valuable then real smarts, in particular if the real ones were obtained through decades (implying the person will then be less flexible, since older).
IME, among post-docs there might not be as many females as among freshers, but there definitely are more than among tenured professors.
Professional associations for women in the smartest professions.
Gender studies graduate programs.
I'm not entirely sure that targeted recruitment of feminists is a good idea. It seems to me like a good way to get LW hijacked into a feminist movement.
I agree, and would expand this to any politically motivated movement (including libertarians, moldbuggians etc.). After all, this is the main rationale for our norm of not discussing politics on LW itself.
Political movements in general care more about where you are and your usefulness as a soldier for their movement than how you got there. It's something that we are actively trying to avoid.
LessWrong+?
LessIncorrect
aren't plenty of other arts+humanities fields female-majority now when you look at newly minted phds?
dunno! It was just a guess
I'm going to take a blind guess and say nurses. Someone tell me how I did!
nurses are smart, but not impressively so.