[TriLUG] The biggest deterrent for women in tech

[Jeremy Davis]

I was told by an educator that generally 6% of children are considered
academically gifted. Which means China has more academically gifted
children then the total population of children in the U.S.
On May 1, 2013 1:07 PM, "Rob Rousseau" <ki4bke at nc.rr.com> wrote:

> I think it may also have something to do with statistics.
> Current population in China is about 1.3 billion people (as of 2011).
> If you take the top 10% smartest people, you get 134,413,000 or 134 million
> people.
> The United States has about 314 million people.
> So already China has 1/3rd smarter people over the United States.
> -Rob
>
> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Brandon Van Every <bvanevery at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 12:03 PM, John Vaughters <jvaughters04 at yahoo.com
> > >wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > My personal opinion is that no matter what your cultural background is,
> > if
> > > you work real hard at improving,
> >
> >
> > Although I did intend to hint at the possibility of genetic shift as
> > imprinted for thousands of years by language (and it's not a stretch,
> diet
> > has done this all over the world), the main reason I said "it's not that
> > simple" is to dispel the idea that the only thing the Chinese are doing
> to
> > be better at math than Americans, is working harder.
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Brandon
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