What do people think of scientists? A group of physics and psychology researchers teamed up to identify stereotypes about physicists and biologists in order to refine what stereotypes are held about not only science as a whole, but specifically the field of physics.
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Minority students in classes with fixed-mindset instructors do worse than in classes with growth-mindset instructors.
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Yep, women who perform the same as men perform don’t feel they are as capable of doing physics.
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The GRE: great at acting as a barrier to underrepresented groups, not so good as a predictor of completing graduate school.
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The men and women earn equal STEM grades but men have higher variability in those grades. This isn’t enough to explain why there are more men in STEM.
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Physics is less diverse than other physical sciences. Do graduate school admission processes contribute to this?
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Men score better than women do on physics conceptual inventories and the reasons aren’t straightforward.
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Physics and Chemistry are similar in terms of prerequisites, difficulty, and admission standards. So why do more women chose chemistry instead of physics?
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