Information Processing

Note Added  in response to 2020 Twitter mob attack which attempts to misrepresent my views : This blog post discusses the firing of James D...

Male brains exhibit larger variance across all morphological measures. (Don't tell Larry Summers! ;-) Note, as far as I can tell the a...

The results described below suggest that faculty evaluators of STEM job applicants tend to favor women over men. Certainly, most departmen...

Some interesting longitudinal results on female persistence through graduate school in STEM. Post-PhD there could still be a problem, but ap...

This NYTimes article looks at the gender disparity in technology career success within the Stanford class of 1994. NYTimes : In the histor...

The recent SMPY paper below describes a group of mathematically gifted (top 1% ability) individuals who have been followed for 40 year...

I recommend this long NYTimes article about recent efforts at Harvard Business School to increase gender equity. If nothing else, it ...

No, you can't actually have it all -- neither as a man nor as a woman. If you want to spend time with your kids (I highly recommend i...

This study ( PNAS ) surveyed 127 professors of biology, chemistry and physics, asking them to evaluate resumes of potential lab managers. Ha...

Nice discussion on Econtalk. I suspect Baumeister has slightly stronger opinions than he expressed to Russ. Roy Baumeister of Florida State...

Is the letter below for real, or just a clever parody? ("Shoes!") This old joke says it all: A man meets a woman in a bar and asks...

A typical conversation between my five year old twins. Guess which is the boy and which is the girl! I: Let's play with my dolls. M: You...

We had Andrew Penner of UC Irvine here last week to discuss his paper Gender Differences in Extreme Mathematical Achievement: An Internati...

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on the social effects of gender imbalances. As we know, teenage girls are more likely than boys to...

Interesting comments from Judith Warner of the Times, as she reports on a brain science workshop for journalists, held at MIT. The audience...

Since the Larry Summers debacle I've kept my eye out for relevant data on gender differences in mathematical ability. Finally I've ...

Via NYTimes' Tierny Lab blog , this address to the American Psychological Association. What was the audience reaction? Did people run ...

This portrait of neuroscientist Sandra Witelson reveals some interesting details about gender differences in brain structure, and of Einste...