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An Retort to the Typical Sexist Post on Lack of Female Programmers

A response to There are so few female programmers because they find it BORING : As usual, the assumption that math predicts ability is assumed. Did you do any research of published data? Also, you likely do not realize that Mathematics majors, score about equally on the mathematical and verbal portions of the SAT/GRE. Math is not simply math. Some samples, from four different studies: This study supports prior research showing mathematics reasoning and verbal ability were each significant predictors of success in computer programming. The results of the study indicate that high scores on the verbal part of the SAT test facilitate generating solutions on the word programming problems; however, the high scores obtained on the SAT test are not significant if the students do not posses specific problem solving skills in their background. About 60% of the variance in programming aptitude was accounted for by this single factor. Six, out of 18, cognitive factors loaded signifi