dulpit wrote: » Your post could be a good example...
Irish Guitarist wrote: » dulpit wrote: » Your post could be a good example... I guess a woman complaining to the BBC that she can't answer the questions on a quiz would be a good example of female fragility then.
Sardonicat wrote: » Yes it would. If it had happened.
Irish Guitarist wrote: » Sardonicat wrote: » Yes it would. If it had happened. Sorry. I could have sworn that article about University Challenge getting complaints about their questions existed but I must have dreamed it.
Pherekydes wrote: » Was it Jesus Vs Magdalen?
Hector Bellend wrote: » Bring back fifteen to one and william g stewart. Best quiz ever.
Duckworth_Luas wrote: » Starter for ten. Anne Boyleyn was a lady.
Irish Guitarist wrote: » University Challenge is apparently going to change their questions so it won't be possible to tell whether they were written by a man or a woman.https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2018/08/27/university-challenge-introduce-gender-neutral-questionsfollowing/ Have you ever watched a quiz and thought "that question was definitely written by a man"? I know I haven't. It's getting more difficult too because they're throwing in questions about women that no one has heard of.https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/25/university-challenge-gender-balances-questions-amid-suggestions/ I used to watch University Challenge and on a good night I'd get maybe three answers correct. I think they should make the questions easier. What about my rights as a stupid person to not be offended?
Sardonicat wrote: » I see an effort to introduce a bit of balance by not ignoring the academic and cultural contributions of women prominent in their fields. The contestants' inability to answer them is more a reflection of the content of courses they are studying.
pleas advice wrote: » How does auld Paxman feel about this? I wouldn't say he'd be too impressed with it
Alexzander Acidic Chopstick wrote: » I agree with Irish Guitarist that it's too hard and I'm offended by the questions not being easier - we don't all have a degree in economics... maths, physics... and bionics.
Giraffe Box wrote: » He thinks that I'm a cabbage 'cause I hate university challenge!
Lorenzo Bumpy Rake wrote: » I genuinely don't think it's the case that university courses systematically ignore all of the prominent female philosophers and mathematicians throughout history. The blunt reality is that there just haven't been many influential women in some fields. Certainly we can debate why that's the case -- but it's just not true that universities are ignoring all of the prominent and important women. Quite the opposite, in many instances, where relatively minor achievements are elevated to an almost absurd level of importance because of the person's gender or race in a university system obsessed with identity politics. You'd think Ada Lovelace singlehandedly invented the entire discipline of computer science the way some people talk about her in the interest of "celebrating women's contributions." In reality, she's a relatively minor historical footnote.
valoren wrote: » On the notion UC is too hard. Think about it. It has to be. Winning UC is good for PR. So the Uni's will want to field the strongest team possible and I am sure competition to get on these teams is quite high as well. Good for the CV, So when you have six brain boxes to quiz then the standard and difficulty of the questions needs to be a lot higher than "A stitich in time saves......how many?"
CrabRevolution wrote: » I noticed something similar during the 1916 Rising commemorations. In the name of "balance" they had to play up the female participants of the rising, which is fine and well, I doubt anyone has much of a problem with that. What did seem ridiculous though was how many of these pieces contained lines about "the forgotten women of the rising" and how "Ireland shamefully didn't remember them as they did Pearse and Connolly". This ignored the obvious reason that these women were just grunts in the Rising, and history doesn't remember the names of grunts whether they be male or female. Random female footsoldiers were being made out to be just as notable as the leaders. I wouldn't call it rewriting history, but it's certainly a twisting of the truth.
suicide_circus wrote: » oh god that was that was embarrassingly transparent. trying to apply a kind of retrospective affirmative action to pacify modern sensibilities.
Grayson wrote: » This whole thread could be summed up by stupid men think that hard quiz is too hard and questions about women are too hard.
Sardonicat wrote: » I studied 3 female philosophers (highly influential in their own right) and from canvassing graduates from other universities that's three more than most.
Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: » Da fcuk is gender neutral questioning? A question is a question isnt it?
Badly Drunk Boy wrote: » Actually, Henry VIII granted her the title Marquess of Pembroke, a male title.
PandaPoo wrote: » Never really got into UC. I love Only Connect though, we watch them all and I'm actually quite good at it now. I don't really get the English political questions but other than that.
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