Gender stereotypes at home may hamper female students’ ability to progress in the classroom, research suggests

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      7 months ago

      …so women are encountering roadblocks to an education they could get due to social tendencies surrounding gender in education and parenting.

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          7 months ago

          yes, sure, in a poetic sense, but no in the literal scientific data sense; the article says parents were asked to guess against literal test scores that the kids took

          more research would be needed to examine long term meanings of overestimation, and i’d be careful not to draw conclusions before then