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UK School Children Fear of being Labelled a Geek
null-hypothesis.co.uk — The fear of being labelled a geek is stopping kids taking up maths. Recent research suggests that people see mathematicians as old, white, middle-class men without a life. It is thought that these preconceptions are the product of the way mathematicians are portrayed in popular culture. What was your maths teacher like?
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- limevelyn, on 05/17/2008, -0/+3For me, it was physics....
- jggube, on 05/17/2008, -0/+6It's quite disheartening to see math declining simply because of a label, of stereotypes associated to a particular field of study. People are needed in these "geeky" fields in order for us to progress in knowledge... the trend should be going up, not down.
- willemvzyl, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1So true! We need more people like Kirsten Sanford in the public eye: http://www.kirstensanford.com/. People who are geeks, but don't fit in with the stereotype.
- expatcatalyst, on 05/18/2008, -0/+3We should tell them the same thing I tell my daughter, geeks run the real world and consequently end up making most of the money...
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