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To: maceng2 who wrote (44806)	1/16/2004 8:31:57 AM
From: macavity	Read Replies (1) of 74559

Hmm. Seriously, this stuff is always badly-phrased. Are women as good as men at maths? This is an almost meaningless question as stated. You need to talk about at what age and against what metric, and even then it is a comparison of two distributions. As we are talking about qualities of two populations (male and female) then population distributions need to be qualified. Unless you make these primary qualifications you are talking at cross-purposes. If you mean to say - is the 50 percentile score of female higher on a standardised test than males of the same age ?Then I would guess the answer is yes - as they are girly swots (and good on them). Hard work and effort is rewarded. But if you mean to say - is the ratio of women to men in the group of all participants capable of achieving a greater than 95th percentile score greater than 1? Then I would answer no! More men are brilliant than women. But the 'averaged' woman is are better than the 'aveveraged' man. also this implies that more klutzes are men. -macavity

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