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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (3289)	1/13/2006 1:37:25 AM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219785

I better deal with my little girl... She spends little time on her maths but always brings home A's :o) History though is her bane... She's only 13 though.. is a change in the wind ? I might add also I'm very demanding ... expecting far more than the school expects...

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (3289)	1/13/2006 2:43:46 AM
From: Crabbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219785

Here we agree and disagree. I think you disparage both the school systems and the female mind much to much. Girls lead the class up to about high school grades 9-12 then boys pass them never to look back. Your argument for girls is echoed for minorities. Neither argument after analysis holds much water. In America the absolute worst schools are often on Indian Reservations. Yet Indian scores on standardized test exceed those of African Americans, even considering that many reservation Indians do not even speak english in their homes. Oriental students are often from getto schools yet they exceed whites from most of the best private schools in SAT and ACT scores. IQ tests that yield poor scores for girls probably emphasize the wrong intelligences. Two large areas extensively tested on IQ test are spatial relations and pattern recognition. Even in language skills the testing is more vocabulary that language structure. Men are only slightly less skilled in vocabulary than women but are greatly deficient in structure in comparison to women. My experience in mensa is however that men outnumber women about 5 or 6 to 1. I study what interests me, so do women, I don't think that baby care is much tested on IQ tests but certainly is a skill and probably a basic intelligence. I think perhaps you put more faith in convention than you would like to admit. r