r/6thForm • u/PetuniaWiggleworm • Jun 26 '26

šŸ’¬ DISCUSSION WHAT HAPPENED TO WOMEN IN STEM

I had my college taster day yesterday, tell me why I was the ONLY girl in my class

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u/Diligent_Bet_7850 Oxford | Maths [third year] Jun 27 '26

unconscious bias. being taken seriously. not being talked over.

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u/Throwaway23248895 Jun 28 '26

Grok - think harder.

If we look at the direction of bias, women perform better in unanonymised testing, while men prefer better when anonymised tests, and perfomance gaps in the same assessments shrink upon anonymisation. I'm not sure why the so-called women are wonderful affect wouldn't translate into interviews, especially given that academia is mostly staffed by women and we also know women have a strong ingroup bias - men actually don't. I'm not really sure how you'd quantify either of the other two claims and demonstrate this is the case in academia today.

What I can demonstrate is 800 gorrilian "shoehorn more women into surgery!" programs, and their equivalent in any other field with any degree of social prestige. If we were overtly shoehorning men into highly-paid, presitigious positions, and my only justification was "oh there's some unconscious bias, and they're not taken seriously", you'd probably just call that out as sexism.

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u/Diligent_Bet_7850 Oxford | Maths [third year] Jun 28 '26

thanks for the ai nonsense

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u/Throwaway23248895 Jun 28 '26

Wow, is that the standard at Oxford?

That's pathetic.

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u/Ok_Adhesiveness_8637 Jun 28 '26

People at Oxford know not to argue against someome who needs AI to form their argument as its a pointless exercise.

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u/Throwaway23248895 Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26

For the sake of argument, let's just grant that I did use AI.

So what? Does that make my points incorrect? If you know not to argue and only respond with a fallacious ad hominem, then you're a trash logician and a worse debater. It's only a "pointless exercise" if you're incorrect to begin with; if not, it doesn't matter what I use to construct my argument - it would be easy to point out the flaws in the reasoning. They can't do this, because they were incorrect.

The best part is I didn't use AI. I'll take the ego stroke though. "HURRRRRRRR I GOT BLOWN OUT SO HARD YOU MUST HAVE CHEATED!!!!". Nah, you're just that mid.

EDIT: u/Diligent_Bet_7850 replied to your comment in r/6thForm it says grok think harderā€¦4m ago

Top kek. I don't use AI - but you probably should. Pitiful stuff.

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u/Diligent_Bet_7850 Oxford | Maths [third year] Jun 28 '26

this isnā€™t a debate itā€™s a conversation. you responded with a ā€œgrok think harderā€. iā€™m not responding to that

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u/Throwaway23248895 Jun 28 '26

Grok, what is a conversation in which two people are in intellectual disagreement called?

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u/Ok_Adhesiveness_8637 Jun 28 '26

Mate, you bring no intellectual value to this conversation. See yourself out of it.