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  There is another way to look at the results of programming girls out of
math.  That is, that it is costing us a great deal.  How?
  Let's assume that there _are_ sex-linked cognitive differences which show
up in the statistics of large populations.  (And ignore, for the moment, the
stupidity of trying to apply statistical data to unique individuals.)  Then
consider the fact that because of social and cultural factors math has,
purely historically, been developed almost entirely by men.  (Yes, I know
there have been a number of excellent female mathematicians!)  Then it is
reasonable to apply statistics to the large sample of all past mathematicians
to infer that math, _as it now exists_ contains a built in bias toward those
cognitive skills at which men tend to excel, leaving skills at which women
tend to outperform men out, or puting them down as "not real math".  I would
argue that this implies that current mathematics has cut itself off from
much that might have otherwise been discovered.