@gtmom Extremely talented girls in STEM are typically extremely talented in lots of things and the ROI for elite math competitions is practically zero.
The 20 schools you speak of are full of rich tiger parents who encourage profligacy as a sign of abundance.
@alz_zyd_ Once, I judged a high level science fair and one judge asked the organizer if it was appropriate to use very technical language in describing some of the shortcomings.
The lead judge responded "Absolutely, that way their parents do a better job next year."
@ericweinstein What would a movement to onshore STEM talent instead of relying on a stream of underpaid international talent look like? Do you think the typical junior researcher in the US either from abroad or domestic has a reward structure for finding the Feynmans and Dysons?
@mathandcobb Groups act on sets yielding geometry. The general linear group solving systems of equations. Rings are for describing invariants of matrices.
@David_J_Bier No, the movement is pro-labor. If US unemployment and underemployment allowed a person to graduate high school and get a job that allowed for raising a family they would not care.
@elonmusk@politicalmath Ehrlich was a horrible person, but there is an ongoing tragedy that could be stopped NOW. Get rid of malaria in Africa by pushing DDT and overcome the nonsense https://t.co/bh4tEn7hwq
@wil_da_beast630 1. Online courses=junk. 2. Article the students were to reflect upon=junk not science. 3. Obvious bigotry of GA, SOP in the 'humanities'. 4. "Mean Girls" is set in B10 Evanston not SEC, cuz SEC girls are nicer. 5 GA still working, just not teaching.
@JayFivekiller@DagoSupremacy Research mathematicians that used to be precocious 15-year-olds, but who now read Ariosto for fun when not landscaping their yards for maximal vegetable production while still going to farmer's markets.
@paulnovosad@ClickingSeason What percentage of those white males took undergraduate degrees from US universities? Using white males from Canada and Europe and Australia is cherry picking too.