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Hi!
If any of you watched last night's UC final (BBC 2 in the UK) you will have seen the very clever longhair in the winning team.
Who or what is a UC?
Here's a link to the Telegraph on the winning team.
In googling "University Challenge", I found there's a controversy because most who make it to the finals are men. It never ceases to amaze me how people get bent out of shape when they discover a way that men and women are different, while they go to great lengths to come up with ways they think men and women are different, where they actually are not. Like HAVING LONG HAIR!
Bill
Which seems odd since here in this part of the US of A the majority of college attendees are women. And those women are doing better than the men. My understanding is that occurs since
men aren't as interested in attending college as women are.
From what I read, I understand that is also the situation in Britain. One site suggested that maybe women were turned off by the gladiator environment of the contest or don't do well in it. Another possibility is that the contest requires quick reaction time or some other component that men are better at. Or maybe most women just don't go for it. A vast majority of licensed amateur radio operators are men, for example, and there has never been a sex requirement or bias associated with the test.
Although people are evaluated as individuals, if their sex trends high or low on a task, this will affect the percentages of people from each sex which are found among the winners. If this is substantially pronounced, separate programs for men and women are sometimes created. You see this with university basketball teams and most footraces.
Bill
Any link to that?
Thanks father M for providing the link.
UC is University Challenge, a quiz show on BBC for college teams.