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* it's fairly established that women tend to have bigger vocabularies than men; they do better on the verbal portions of the SATs and GREs, for instance.* The
by sabat 17y ago
* it's fairly established that women tend to have bigger vocabularies than men; they do better on the verbal portions of the SATs and GREs, for instance.*
The only true generalization is that there are no true generalizations.
Example: I'm a male. My SAT score breakdown (taken in the 1980s): math 610, language 680. My four-year-old son recently took an IQ test and his language score was 145. Maybe we're not typical, but I'm not even sure the idea that most women have larger vocabularies than most men works. Why are so many of the world's greatest writers and speakers men?
- byrneseyeview 17y agoI think the point of "it's fairly well-established" is that there have been studies. And that is definitely consistent with reality: are their more female novelists, poets, or cryptographers? Your sample size of one is interesting, but not enough. (I, too, am a guy who did better on the verbal portion of the SAT.)
- araneae 17y agoPoint 1: It's perfectly possible for the average woman to do better than the average male on the verbal portion of the SAT and for the average male to do better on his verbal portion of the SAT than on his math score. Not that that's true. Point 2: When will you guys stop clinging to anecdotal evidence? Just because most computer scientists are male doesn't mean that there are no female computer scientists, which is a claim analogous to the one you made.