Brief statistical interlude: Jordan, Qatar, and the UAE are the only countries where girls seem to be more comfortable with math

The chart above is from here via here and uses the metric of "feeling helpless" when confronted with a math problem. There are essentially only three countries in the world -- Jordan, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates -- where girls are significantly ahead of boys in terms of dealing with math. In some industrialized nations, like the U.S., the percent…