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Girls get better grades then boys. That is because grades measure, or at least are influenced by, conformity. Boys do better on tests then girls. Because tes

• smt88 8y ago
  Tests are not objective. Have you ever tried to design an unbiased survey question? It’s really hard. Tests are biased toward native speakers of a language and people who share a culture with the test creators. The subset of questions can have a bias inherent to them. There are just a million ways that they’re not “objective,” and that’s not even getting into the context around the taking of the test! See also: http://time.com/81355/girls-beat-boys-in-every-subject-and-they-have-for-a-century/ http://time.com/81355/girls-beat-boys-in-every-subject-and-t... https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170406121532.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170406121532.h...
• jeffdavis 8y ago
  Boys do better on tests?
  • pravda 8y ago
    On math SATs they do. http://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/satnew.png http://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/satnew.png Can't find a similar chart for verbal, but it looks like in combined scores boys outscore girls. http://articles.latimes.com/2001/aug/29/news/mn-39684 http://articles.latimes.com/2001/aug/29/news/mn-39684