3 ms·

Gender and Language

• CrazyStat 5y ago
  > A 2021 study in Israel showed that when women were addressed in a math exam using male pronouns, their scores were low. When they were correctly identified with feminine pronouns, scores rose by a third. This is just plain wrong. Reading the study [1]: * The average score for women addressed in the masculine was 54.5. * The average score for women addressed in the feminine was 59.5. * The "scores rose by a third"--which was so implausible it is what led me to go read the original paper--appears to refer to one third of the average gender gap between men and women. * The difference between the women addressed in the masculine and women addressed in the feminine was not statistically significant: > When addressed in the masculine, women’s maths scores were lower by 5.1 percentage points (−6.9 + 12.0), relative to when addressed in the feminine (Model 1; F(1,755) = 2.31, p = 0.129). I expect better of Reuters. [1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41539-021-00087-7 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41539-021-00087-7