This is perhaps the most horrifying comment on this thread. And I don't even wear contacts.

Please, please beg your coworker to publish. I second the 'I would read that.'

I had a math professor talk about this the other day. He wondered why female students always seemed to focus on what they didn't understand and male students focused on what they knew. It had never occurred to him that we might have heard a thing or two about how no mattered how hard we tried, we'd never be good at…