"Contrary to the old saying, statistics don't lie, but they can certainly be misunderstood." Or, as Penn and Teller said, "Numbers aren't bull****, bull**** is bull****." (I'm not sure if it's okay to swear here).
Intra-group differences are always greater than inter-group differences. Even if men were better than woman at math on average, there would still be lots of individual women better at math than lots of individual men. So I agree that this kind of research might be interesting in the abstract, but it doesn't have very many policy implications.
Besides, gender doesn't exist anyway. No, seriously--try coming up with a definition of "male" or "female." (I took a philosophy class on gender...you talk about these kinds of things)
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Date: 2010-12-08 11:14 am (UTC)"Contrary to the old saying, statistics don't lie, but they can certainly be misunderstood." Or, as Penn and Teller said, "Numbers aren't bull****, bull**** is bull****." (I'm not sure if it's okay to swear here).
Intra-group differences are always greater than inter-group differences. Even if men were better than woman at math on average, there would still be lots of individual women better at math than lots of individual men. So I agree that this kind of research might be interesting in the abstract, but it doesn't have very many policy implications.
Besides, gender doesn't exist anyway. No, seriously--try coming up with a definition of "male" or "female." (I took a philosophy class on gender...you talk about these kinds of things)
-TealTerror