In particular, women who have been stared at by men then perform more poorly on math tests(PDF).
That's a paywall, so I assume you have not read it. Here's a jailbroken copy: "When What You See Is What You Get: The Consequences of the Objectifying Gaze for Women and Men ", Gervais et al 2011 (Libgen; PDF.yt; Dropbox).
This paper inherits the usual defects of the 'stereotype threat' literature. It takes place in no-stakes situations, while stereotype threats have failed to generalize to any situations that actually matter, and blinding is questionable (they bring the subjects in, then "They also learned that they may be asked to report their feelings about themselves and others and to complete word problems", and do math problems? Gee, I'm sure none of these undergrads recruited from psychology classes figured out what the real experiment was!) The results are also a little bizarre on their face: "...the objectifying gaze also increased women’s, but not men’s, motivation to engage in subsequent interactions with their partner...the objectifying gaze did not influence body surveillance, body shame, or body dissatisfaction for women or men". Huh?
And finally, this is social psychology.
And IQ variance is clearly insufficient: different disciplines requiring similar needs have radically different gender ratios.
That does not follow. If different disciplines have non-identical needs, then depending on the exact differences in distribution shape, the correlation between IQ, and the cutoff for success (see for example the table of r vs cutoff in "What does it mean to have a low R-squared ? A warning about misleading interpretation") - not to mention the other variables which also vary between gender (Conscientiousness; degree of winner-take-all dynamics; expected work hours) - may well be sufficient to explain it. You'll need to do more work than that.
And there's real evidence that in at least some cases, cultural issues are having much more of an impact than IQ- look at how the percentage of women in IT and computer related fields was steadily going up and then started dropping when personal computers appeared. See discussion here.
See discussion here.
This paper inherits the usual defects of the 'stereotype threat' literature. It takes place in no-stakes situations
Sure. It is extremely difficult to test these situations in high-stakes situations for obvious reasons.
Gee, I'm sure none of these undergrads recruited from psychology classes figured out what the real experiment was!
This is an intrinsic problem in almost all psychology studies. Is there anything specific here that's worse than in other cases?
...The results are also a little bizarre on their face: "...the objectifying gaze also in
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