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Originally Posted by parejkoj
does any one have any comments on the studies that I posted earlier (one I linked to again just above)?
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I just get a "Pay me" page when I try it, which is probably what others have gotten too. But from what you told us about it...
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Originally Posted by parejkoj
Guiso et al. found that the math gender gap essentially vanishes in countries with better gender equality (as measured by a variety of independent sources), and the reading gap actually increases.
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For various reasons, I have no faith in the their numerization of the nebulous and subjective concept of "gender equality". And since what you've described here of the findings boils down to "females are just plain smarter than males", I'm not sure whether to roll my eyes at that assertion being brought up by people who present themselves as defenders of fairness and the insistence that the sexes are essentially equal in all ways, or to feel encouraged that someone on that side finally at least mustered the honesty to admit that that's what they've really been sneakily saying all along (since they NEVER EVER object to the idea of males having any sort of inferiority in any way).