<p>Yes, and the earth is flat. Please back your claims with statistics. Anecdotes are useless, and absent of any merit in this argument.</p>
<p>A few measures that may affect female enrollment in engineering, valid according to Steven Pinker, a leading psychologist or psychometrician at Harvard:
Men are more likely to be geniuses and morons (implying that all top schools with 50-50 ratios put the proverbial thumb on the scale to some degree for women, or use other criteria that compensate for the disparity at the tail end on the right).
Men perform better in certain mathematical areas relevant to math and the sciences, specifically on aptitude tests with high levels of predictivity.
Men tend to be more interested in math and the sciences.
<a href=“Edge: THE SCIENCE OF GENDER AND SCIENCE”>Edge: THE SCIENCE OF GENDER AND SCIENCE;
<p>However, the female engineering applicant pool may deviate from these tendencies. </p>
<p>“racist anti-AA-mongers” yes, brand your targets so that you are absolutely morally superior, and your opponents vile racists. Here is a definition of racist: someone who hates all of that race. Most AA opponents are not at all racist, by that definition.</p>
<p>Label me sexist for not “knowing” why sex should matter in selection.</p>