Comments on: Engineering Equations: Why the School of Mines suffers from dancing deprivation http://sdsmtaurum.com/2009/09/dancing-deprivation/ Official Newspaper of the Hardrockers Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:30:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Erik Kramer http://sdsmtaurum.com/2009/09/dancing-deprivation/comment-page-1/#comment-33 Erik Kramer Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:30:46 +0000 http://sdsmtraver.com/?p=51#comment-33 "*** The school’s website says the boy to girl ratio is 2:1, not 7:1, but they also say that there are 606 girls at the school. Show me 606 girls who attend the School of Mines and I’ll show you a dinosaur ice skating hand-in-hand with a llama (in other words that is an absurd and highly unlikely statistic). I have had classes where I have been the only girl… so 7:1 seems like a fair ratio to use. However, if we wanted to use the 2:1 ratio, we could just tweak the coefficient in front of “girl” in the equation so that it is a 2 instead of a 7." Unless you have conducted a solid study of the number of girls at Mines, this statement is hogwash. Many of the girls here are in IS classes and won't be as represented in the engineering classes more commonly taken by guys. “*** The school’s website says the boy to girl ratio is 2:1, not 7:1, but they also say that there are 606 girls at the school. Show me 606 girls who attend the School of Mines and I’ll show you a dinosaur ice skating hand-in-hand with a llama (in other words that is an absurd and highly unlikely statistic). I have had classes where I have been the only girl… so 7:1 seems like a fair ratio to use. However, if we wanted to use the 2:1 ratio, we could just tweak the coefficient in front of “girl” in the equation so that it is a 2 instead of a 7.”

Unless you have conducted a solid study of the number of girls at Mines, this statement is hogwash. Many of the girls here are in IS classes and won’t be as represented in the engineering classes more commonly taken by guys.

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