{"id":264,"date":"2006-05-25T07:58:42","date_gmt":"2006-05-25T07:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/05\/25\/nerdify-the-world\/"},"modified":"2006-05-25T07:58:42","modified_gmt":"2006-05-25T07:58:42","slug":"nerdify-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/05\/25\/nerdify-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Nerdify the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Aaronson takes up the eternal question of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottaaronson.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/nerdify-world-and-women-will-follow.html\">why there are so few women in science<\/a>. His contribution to the nature\/ nurture side of the debate is particularly noteworthy:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>To put the point differently: suppose (hypothetically) that what repelled women from computer science were all the vending-machine-fueled all-nighters, empty pizza boxes stacked to the ceiling, napping coders drooling on the office futon, etc.; and indeed that men would be repelled by such things as well, were it not for a particular gene on the Y chromosome called PGSTY-8. In that case, would the &#8220;cause&#8221; of the gender imbalance be genetic or cultural? This is a fascinating question, right up there with whether rocks fall because of gravity or being dropped, and whether 3+5=5+3 because addition is commutative or because they both equal 8.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As you would expect, Scott has a novel solution to offer: The problem isn&#8217;t that scientists are too nerdy, it&#8217;s that the rest of the world <strong>isn&#8217;t nerdy enough<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds about right to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Aaronson takes up the eternal question of why there are so few women in science. His contribution to the nature\/ nurture side of the debate is particularly noteworthy: To put the point differently: suppose (hypothetically) that what repelled women from computer science were all the vending-machine-fueled all-nighters, empty pizza boxes stacked to the ceiling,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/05\/25\/nerdify-the-world\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nerdify the World<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}