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Well that was interesting, if longwinded. tl;dr: (As you might have anticipated) Women who are primed to imagine themselves as a man perform statistically the
by tedmiston 11y ago
Well that was interesting, if longwinded.
tl;dr: (As you might have anticipated) Women who are primed to imagine themselves as a man perform statistically the same as men. This has implications for other standardized tests too. When people (subconsciously) underperform to confirm to a (negative) stereotype of some part of their identity, it's called stereotype threat. A similar effect occurs, e.g., when a woman is in an engineering class surrounded by men.