Superior math skills from a Biology major (Score 1)

I refuse to be marginalized as an unsuccessful woman by some fucking CS *professor* who can't even do arithmetic. "the computer camp she had attended as a girl had a boy-girl ratio of six to one. And why were only 20 percent of computer science undergraduates at M.I.T. female...The year was 1991." That looks like an increase in female representation to me. "In 2001-2, only 28 percent of all undergraduate degrees in computer science went to women. " Another increase! "By 2004-5, the number had declined to only 22 percent." Call me a cynic, but getting out of the major in the early 2000s was a pretty cagey thing to do. And the cincher: "Twenty-five years ago, more young women in colleges and universities were drawn to computer science than today. From 1971 to 1983, incoming freshman women who declared an intention to major in computer science jumped eightfold, to 4 percent from about 0.5 percent. " "At least we know one thing: it's possible to have about the same number of men and women in computer science classes. That just about describes classrooms of 25 years ago." I'm just a stupid girl who knows jack about programming, so he must be right that 4% is close to half.