Exploratory Exercise



  1. There are only two sexes. True/False.

  2. Currently 3% of the full professors of physics in the U.S. are women. This statement was true in: 1913, 1949, 1981, 1996.

  3. There was only one tenured female professor in organismal biology at Harvard in: 1969, 1979, 1989, 1999.

  4. The number of women ever hired as tenure-track faculty in physics at the University of Maine is: 0, 1, 2, 3.

  5. Science is necessary for the progress of U.S. society. Agree/Disagree

  6. Scientific method is a means to neutralize social and political methods of researchers. Agree/Disagree

  7. Scientists are currently our most reliable producers of knowledge. Yes/No

  8. Domination and control are masculine traits. Yes/No

  9. Scientists should be objective observers. Agree/Disagree


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