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Also this week: changing gender balance of US undergrads in math-intensive majors, brown bears vs. insurance fraud, LLMs vs. electricity demand, LLMs vs. signalling theory, against writing advice, the reverse population bomb, and more. Writing in Science, Cimpian and King use a giant near-census dataset to show that the gender balance of physics, engineering, and computer science majors has steadily improved at US colleges and universities over the 21st century–but mostly at highly selective institutions, where entering students have the highest SAT math scores. Both enrollment and retention of women in these majors seems to vary with mean SAT math score of entering students. The improvements in gender balance also are strongest among white and Asian students than students of other races. The causes of these patterns aren’t clear, though the authors note that “social belonging” interventions intended to improve enrollment and retention of women in math-intensive majors seem to have the

Also this week: changing gender balance of US undergrads in math-intensive majors, brown bears vs. insurance fraud, LLMs vs. electricity demand, LLMs vs. signalling theory, against writing advice, the reverse population bomb, and more. Writing in Science, Cimpian and King use a giant near-census dataset to show that the gender balance of physics, engineering, and computer science majors has steadily improved at US colleges and universities over the 21st century– but mostly at highly selective institutions, where entering students have the highest SAT math scores . Both enrollment and ret

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