My therapist in the 80s made me realize this, and I’ve been intuitively good at math ever since.

s, or thi…(for an extended discussion of the gendered empathy myth, see Chapter 2 of Fine’s book). Similarly, women score significantly higher on mathematical and analytical tasks (typically thought to be the logical male’s domain!) when primed to believe that women are just as capable of these tasks as men — though women’s performance suffers when they are primed to believe the opposite (see for instance this, this, or this article).
The Myth of Meaningful Gender Difference in the Human Brain
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My therapist in the 80s made me realize this, and I’ve been intuitively good at math ever since.
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