Journal Samantha Wright's Journal: Biology Help Desk: Volume 2^3 19
The drill! You may know it from my last journals. Ask questions and I'll be happy to help. Feel free to answer any questions you have ideas about yourself, too.
The drill! You may know it from my last journals. Ask questions and I'll be happy to help. Feel free to answer any questions you have ideas about yourself, too.
Memory fault - where am I?
Human skin: How is it a barrier? (Score:2)
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Wow, thanks. (Score:2)
What can I do for you? I know an exceptionally nice man who is serious about marriage who is looking for a wife, if you aren't already married. (I'm a full-service friend. -grin-)
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"waiting list"? Actually, no. (Score:2)
Yes, he is friendly with a lot of women. However, it is very, very difficult to find a woman who is serious about marriage. Most just don't want to do the work. He and I talk about that a lot. I'm now happily married, but I looked for 42 years in 33 countries before I found her in Brazil. I'm trying to make it easier for him.
If a woman meets an interesting man, the immediate issue is not whether or
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I'm reading this thread and I'm wondering: is this *really* happening? I'm glad, in a way, for not being a geek female. I'm worried for my daughter, just a bit.
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This is probably the fifth or sixth time since I started posting on Slashdot actively two or three years ago. However, it is the first time someone has... solicited on the behalf of another, and the first time the inquirer had the forethought and considerateness to post directly (and insistently) on a very visible and irremovable journal entry rather than a private email or an obscure story comment.
As most of these messages seem to come from older people, I remain optimistic that this kind of thing is conti
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Asymptotic background level, if any, has to go to the very bottom of the waiting list, then :) I enjoy your posts, keep it up.
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I'm reading this thread and I'm wondering: is this *really* happening? I'm glad, in a way, for not being a geek female. I'm worried for my daughter, just a bit.
Agreed and seconded.
I currently work at a university well known for it's engineering programs and I would be *very* scared to send my daughter here. The ~ 15% female population is alternatively fetishized and objectified, but also not expected to succeed in any highly technical endeavors. My daughter is 3 years old, I'm hoping to teach her to code when she's a little older (project Alice or something similar), but only if she also learns some sort of asymmetric self-defense such as Aikido first. . .
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Oh, of course! I really enjoyed going to a school that had a much more balanced range of academic programs, and I guarantee all my engineering friends very much appreciated that environment as well, especially being able to meet motivated and smart people with very different and varied interests.
But even then, the number of female Ph.Ds or faculty members in, say, math, physics, or computer science is a tremendous problem, and noone believes for an instant it has anything to do with innate ability, it's cl
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This [genderbiasbingo.com] exceedingly well-informed (and justly so) guy pretty much covers and has experienced everything there is to say. Perhaps the most bizarre thing is how deep the bias about perceived skill runs; Barres argues that seemingly well-adjusted people will unconsciously view a female scientist's work more critically simply based on gender (although his own anecdotal experience is hardly under rigorous control and it's possible he really did get better.)
On the other hand, when I got to graduate school and was g
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There was a study in PNAS within the last year that was eye-opening, especially in that female faculty were just as biased against a fictional resume for a lab manager (read gap year student technician) if the name was feminine rather than masculine.
http://www.pnas.org/content/109/41/16474.full [pnas.org]
Of all the numerous commentaries on why this might be so, I think the above-average but not stellar academic credentials (B+ student) is what did it. For a normal
(read male) evaluation, the narrative might be "this gu
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Psychology question (Score:2)
I am not sure if this is completely on-topic, but how did humans evolve such complex, and often disfunctional, psychologies/behaviors/I'm not sure what to call them?
I can understand if an eating disorder developed as a side-effect of beneficial adaptations, but I've read that somewhere around 1 in 6 people have suffered from depression. How did this happen, and how did humans make it this far despite what seem like fairly debilitating mental issues affecting so many of us, from eating disorders and depressi
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I'm not a psychologist (and Slashdot just ate half my post), but I might be able to satisfy your curiosity on this matter.
Evolutionary psychology is an ideology that holds that most human quirks were, at some point, useful. Usually this involves some romanticized neolithic society, and it's been shown many times that it's probably mostly garbage and definitely depends on circular reasoning in some cases, but there are some things that can be somewhat explained by it. Depression seems to be one of them.
Anoth
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Thanks for the super in-depth reply. As always, your responses are always really interesting. How did you get the idea to start this Q&A thing anyway?
I never knew how country-specific a lot of these disorders were. I think I follow how depression and BPD could arise and how Stockholm syndrome could help. I don't really understand how schizophrenia could be linked to more analytical minds, but I guess our brains and bodies ARE a bunch of spagetti code, so I'll have to look into that.
I also see how obesit
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You're welcome! I started doing Q&As after I kept getting random off-topic bio questions on news stories. They've dried up a little, but clearly people are still checking for these journal entries, despite not asking for them, since you and several other people found this one.
Stockholm syndrome is actually a coping mechanism that prevents depression. If you love your captor, that distracts you from the fact that you're imprisoned and being abused. BPD tends to manifest following a lot of deep shattering