scienceshenanigans: nbcnews:Men overestimate intelligence in science class, study shows. A new s
scienceshenanigans: nbcnews: Men overestimate intelligence in science class, study shows. A new study found that men in STEM subject areas overestimate their own intelligence and credentials, underestimate the abilities of female colleagues, and that as a result, women themselves doubt their abilities — even when hard evidence such as grades say otherwise. By any definition, Gwen Pearson is pretty smart. She’s got a Ph.D in entomology and she is now a science writer and education coordinator. But she remembers how often she was told she wasn’t good enough, simply because she was female. “As a graduate student, a fellow male student said, to my face, that he had no idea how I was admitted to the program because I clearly wasn’t smart enough to be there,” Pearson recalls. Women in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) careers have countless similar stories. Read more here. -- source link