Stereotypes proven true at your school

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>: Exactly 2 females in my AP Chem class. There were 4, but two dropped. No males dropped. However, females make up more than half of my hilariously non-rigorous, easy AP English class. I'm pretty sure that the situation in my school's AP Physics class isn't terribly dissimilar, to be polite.</p>

<p>: Zero (!) black people in my Honors Precalc class, which is the only one in the school this semester. Blacks make up a little less than half of the total school population. No latinos either.</p>

<p>: Zero white people on the basketball team, either varsity or JV.</p>

<p>: All of the Asians try really hard and don't talk much</p>

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<p>Wow, aren’t stereotypes fun??</p>

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<p>^ When they’re true…yes.</p>

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<p>Are you saying these things just to be a jerk or are you serious? Your first “stereotype” is especially wrong. There are a lot of girls who excel in science; Go on Google or something and search the winners of the Google Science Fair, ISEF, STS, ect.</p>

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<p>Stereotypes proven true with the sample sizes of yours? I beseech you to take AP Stats before rearing your ignorant head again.</p>

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<p>Please note the ‘at your school’ condition.</p>

<p>But you’re not seriously going to contest my point that females’ achievement in science is equal to that of males</p>

<p>I also love how no one is taking offense to my (true) characterization of whites as unathletic, only the women thing. Yay for predictably PC CCer’s!</p>

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<p>I don’t know if you can read or not, but I categorically rejected all your claims based on statistically insignificant sample sizes. Sampling one class “at your school,” which likely comprises hundreds of classes, is hardly significant.</p>

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<p>OK, so your message so far is: girls are bad at math, black people are bad at math, white people are bad at basketball, asian people are obsessed with academics.</p>

<p>Even if it was funny, or entertaining (which it’s not), why bother? What was the point, besides offending people in those particular races or genders?</p>

<p>Saying other people are “PC” (apparently we live in the '90s again?) is a poor attempt to compensate for not being funny.</p>

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<p>The one about gender ratios is actually true (well, not the way you put it, but there is indeed a large gender imbalance).</p>

<p>AP Art classes around the nation are more than 80% female. Foreign languages with the exception of German are at least more than 60% female, French as high as 70% female. AP English as well as Biology classes have more than 55% female. In fact, I think in total there’s a larger amount of AP classes.</p>

<p>However, although females dominate a lot of classes, males dominate most STEM classes. While AP Calculus AB is pretty balanced, the harder AP Calculus BC has a much higher percentage of males. AP Physics is also predominately male, especially Physics C. And AP Computer Science is overwhelmingly male, more than 75% so. Not that I’m hating on females, of course. Females actually are much more represented in AP classes overall, but it’s kind of sad why they seem to shy away from STEM courses, which is where we probably need them the most! Personally, I think we should encourage girls to delve more into science and math, and we should encourage males to delve more into language and humanities. </p>

<p>I’ll try to find a source for this, btw.</p>

<p>Edit: Here is my source. <a href=“http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2012/02/what-do-ap-subject-exams-tell-us-about.html[/url]”>http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2012/02/what-do-ap-subject-exams-tell-us-about.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>I did the numbers in my post off the top of my head, but I was pretty close. AP Biology, English Language, Spanish Language, Spanish Literature, Psychology, English Literature, Art History, French Language, and Studio Art all have a gender gap with girls leading by more than 18%. On the other hand, the only the only AP classes with a gender gap with boys leading by more than 18% are AP Calculus BC, Physics B, Physics C, and Computer Science.</p>

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<p>Were males faced with years of discrimination and restrictions? No, so obviously there are more men than women, at this point in time, that have made scientific achievements. But… since, you know… it’s the 21st century, and girls have been recognized for their minds, and clearly are no longer held back as before, there are plenty of females who are are excelling in science, and soon that gap between men and women’s scientific contributions will close. Who are you, anyway, to judge girls on their aptitude in science and math? Did you win any major science awards? Your stereotyping tells me that you’re just resentful towards females. I’m guessing you’re that weird guy who can never get a date? It’s people like you that are responsible for the sexism that still exists today, not that that’s really a concern anymore, it’s not like you can do anything. Anyways, I’m guessing you didn’t look-up those science fair winners? Because then, you’d obviously see, how untrue what you said is.
And yeah, every thing you said is untrue, but what you said about girls was the most annoying to me, and I’m sure if someone reading this was, for instance, a black person who is good in math, saw your second stereotype, he or she would have just as an annoyed response.</p>

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<p>why is everybody getting offended? they’re stereotypes pertaining to a specific school. no one is saying that it’s true for everyone. and besides, generalizations exist. it’s just important to realize that there are always exceptions</p>

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<p>I’m one of the only four girls in my AP Physics class. The class is basically divided into asian and white people. There are literally no other races.</p>

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<p>In my AP Physics B class last semester there were four girls (including me) and ten or eleven boys. This semester I’m in the other class period at my school and I’m one of three girls with about 14 boys and this semester I actually have the class during the period where most of the classes at my school are predominantly female because it is the boys’ athletic period so there’s another stereotype about science nerds being nonathletic. But all of the females (except for one) in my AP Physics classes are athletes. Also no black people whatsoever.</p>

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<p>The absurdity of this comment is both frightening and laughable.</p>

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<p>As a female, I (sadly) have to agree with the poster, and I’m surprised by the amount of hatred on this page when it was meant to be an innocent post. </p>

<p>-I’m on of three girls in a huge honors trig class, and we are waaaaaaaay outnumbered in honors chem. At my school, it aligns with the stereotype that science and math are male-dominated fields, but it has nothing to do with potential success (see 2nd point …)

  • The three girls who are in the honors trig class are kicking the guy’s asses. Hands down. I’m not sure what stereotype this goes with but it shows that neither females nor males have a built-in-disadvantage.
  • The racial stereotypes conform to much of what has been said as well. </p>

<p>I’m not sure what to think when everyone makes a fuss over the gender sterotypes but lets the racial stereotypes go :)</p>

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<p>An interesting question to pose is whether females are less represented in STEM courses/fields because of natural affinity for other subjects or years of discrimination.</p>

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<p>Obviously I can’t speak for all females but personally I grew up loving literature and books and hated math and science. They always seemed too concrete and they were kind of boring to me.</p>

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<p>^</p>

<p>For sure~! Womans minds r just incapables to do the maths.</p>

<p>At my school for ap comp sci, there are always like 40 boys and 1 girl.</p>

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<p>I think minds are just wired differently. I personally am a very logical kind of person, so math and science really make sense to me. I’d rather work with numbers than letters. And in my own opinion, I lack the creativity and eloquence to be in the literature field hahah</p>

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<p>There is no diversity in suburbia- my Public HS from a well off suburban area of PA is 95% white. A majority of the 5% is Asian. In our school of 1500+ we have a grand total of 3 black kids, 2 Latinos.</p>