26-July-2008, 07:21 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Bowie, MD
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Disinfo Agent
Even if there has been a dumbing down, wouldn't the likely result of that be to lower the proficiency of boys and girls by the same amount? That wouldn't eliminate the mean difference between boys and girls, if there were one.
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That could be--a possibility (unfortunately, a likely one) is both have gone down in performance by different amounts and landed on "equality". If so, that is not something to celebrate!!!! equality is not a good thing when it means "equally bad". As an analogy, better that the people of a nation be unequally rich than equally poor.
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