Let's do it by the numbers ladies and gentlemen!

Let's say you are a female reading this post.  If not, put yourself in their stilettos for once, and I am not advocating drag.  Empathize.  How many times have you wondered about woman scientists, mathematicians, and physicists?  How many have gotten acclaim, have their own TV show like Bill Nye the Science Guy, or Michio Kaku?   Jane Goodall does not apply here, for she did little mathematics as the gorillas she was studying just could not grasp derivatives.

Now, imagine everything you think you know about male scientists to be one thing: false.  A new study has shown as this blogger has always suspected, women are equally capable at mathematics and math-based disciplines as men. Women have more estrogen than men, have different receptor site activity all over their bodies, including their brains.  Yet, where women differ so much from men, for some reason evolution put into them a kind of brain matter balancing mechanism, cognitive karma if you will.  In this case, it's good karma.

Often times, I have been pretty disappointed to hear of women who claim that they "just can't do math."  While learning disabilities do exist in this regard it is clearly not gender biased in particular disfavor towards women.  I applaud the authors of this study for proving something long suspected, women can do it by the numbers just as well as men.