Are women bad at math: Graphs refute.

The Clearest Graphs You Will Ever See Refuting the Idea That Women Are Bad at Math

The Clearest Graphs You Will Ever See Refuting the Idea That Women Are Bad at Math

The XX Factor
What Women Really Think
Aug. 29 2013 4:40 PM

The Clearest Graphs You Will Ever See Refuting the Idea That Women Are Bad at Math

Terri Oda is a mathematician who now works in computer science. She is also female. Weird, right? When people told her women were biologically unsuited to math, she used to draw a graph for them on the back of a napkin showing why this wasn’t statistically true. Because women like napkins. Finally Oda decided to put her napkin doodles into a slideshow with actual graphs, which is the clearest visual refutation of the "women are not biologically suited for math" theory I’ve ever seen. Charts and numbers and stuff: You should check it out.