Because Emily is a girl, I am going to look for a special spatial orientation class for her when she's a high schooler. There have been tests that show that the kind of spatial orientation that boys seem to have and girls (in general) don't, can be *taught*. If it is taught, girls score just as well in engineering, drafting, all those other freshman engineering classes. If it isn't taught, they don't.
Visualize docking one spacecraft with another. Spatial orientation is important. Tim has to know a fair amount of orbital mechanics in his job, Suzi needs to know more.
Anyway, it's a tool that doesn't take that much time to acquire and probably doesn't require maintenance (at least for the first ten years of a career).
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Girls and engineering
Date: 2007-09-19 04:49 pm (UTC)Re: Girls and engineering
Date: 2007-09-19 05:09 pm (UTC)Re: Girls and engineering
Date: 2007-09-19 09:51 pm (UTC)Anyway, it's a tool that doesn't take that much time to acquire and probably doesn't require maintenance (at least for the first ten years of a career).