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Science it's a girl thing - FAIL?

submitted by RFlagg

1 decade 1 year 10 months 1 week ago

Sixty Symbols' Dr Meghan Gray talks about the Science It's A Girl Thing video
http://videosift.com/video/How-NOT-to-Promote-Science-to-Women

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Thanks - That was a great interview.
I can see what they were trying to do and I can see what they ended up doing.

This (Whole thing) is a great study on advertising, human condition, public reaction and so on - I think they have learned something here. That in itself is a good thing. And it has gained some attention for the Youtube channel. Lets hope they can prosper from this.

Original video: http://videosift.com/video/How-NOT-to-Promote-Science-to-Women

YouTube Channel (which has pulled the video, but still has all the supporting videos.
http://www.youtube.com/user/sciencegirlthing

>> ^hpqp:

@Sagemind
Dr Meghan Gray answers to that in this video (starts 5:39).

I see what they were trying to do, but when your manipulating such a toxic stereotype its no surprise it ended up poisoning their message. Hopefully the bad publicity can be redirected to videos such as this. You know, videos that actually show real female Scientists being passionate about their work.

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