Hackers' Pub

Hackers’ Pub

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina@mastodon.social

6/30/2025, 4:51:25 PM

Public

I find it hilarious that this post popped off

I guess we're all tired of the "spatial ability" hand waving (spatial ability is neither well defined nor well measured nor cleanly predictively associated with things like 'being able to do software')

https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/114762915691826859

Dr. Cat Hicks (@grimalkina@mastodon.social)

If I have to see this goddamn "spatial ability" argument one more time. Get more specific. What type of spatial ability you absolute clowns. Exactly what task, and explain how you address the spatial ability conflation with gender problems. Explain why and how these diffs vanish when you include all the spatial tasks THAT RESEARCHERS REMOVED BECAUSE GIRLS WERE GOOD AT THEM https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10648-023-09728-2

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