(19-04-2014, 09:23 AM)Denita Wrote: Where in the test is the implication, in any way, that mathematics and science is a "guy thing"?
It's not implied. It's absurdly
obvious from the way the questions are laid out, and the results the "test" gives depending on which answers you choose. Try taking it several times, changing your answers, and see what happens.
Think about it. There's only ONE reason they ask questions like that -- it's because someone thinks the referenced skills are gendered somehow. Read the link someone posted in this thread about gender tests. It explains better than I can why these tests are a waste of electrons.
(19-04-2014, 09:23 AM)Denita Wrote: Spelling might not be an indication of your gender but spelling ability is also not a indicator of your intelligence or access to decent education. Having a form of Dyslexia and Dysgraphia myself I have to work extra hard to be coherent and to correct my spelling.
Kindly note I did specifically mention dyslexia.
And yes, spelling ability is, in point of fact, an indication of intelligence and education. It's not a direct correlation, but it is most certainly an indication. This is what we could call a general rule. A few exceptions do not disprove the rule.
(19-04-2014, 09:23 AM)Denita Wrote: Lack of spatial awareness or spatial reasoning has no correlation with intelligence.
The hell it doesn't! Unless you have an entirely different definition of "intelligence" than everyone else....
Spatial reasoning is part of every intelligence test. What do you think it's there for?
And please, everyone can spare me the nonsense going around how "IQ tests are meaningless". If they were meaningless, the military wouldn't use the ASVAB test. They keep using it because it works, and the military does not care about politically correct opinions.
(19-04-2014, 09:23 AM)Denita Wrote: Yes the test is full of bad spelling, obviously leading and strange questions but it does not contain assumptions, stereotypes, prejudice or any implied insults.
Hey, denial ain't just a river in Egypt, ya know.
It is one long litany of assumptions and stereotypes, beginning to end. It has to be! If they don't make assumptions about what is male behavior and what is female behavior, what would be the point? I'm simply baffled that anyone could assert otherwise.
Basically, the result of these tests is that if a man can't spatially reason, parallel park, do math, or fix a car, he's a woman. Well, 'scuse me all to pieces, but that's poppycock.