Monday, February 7, 2011

Study finds that ogling by men lowers women's math test scores.

A recent study shows that women test lower in math when they've been objectified by a man just before taking the test. Researchers attribute this, at least in part, to what's called "stereotype threat", the phenomenon that when you remind people of a stereotype about their group — "Girls are bad at math" — their performance at that task actually does drop because of their anxiety over the stereotype.

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