5 ms·
Women outperform men on GPA, SAT reading, and ACT humanities sections. Men do better on SAT math and ACT STEM sections
by Georgelemental 4y ago
Women outperform men on GPA, SAT reading, and ACT humanities sections. Men do better on SAT math and ACT STEM sections
- zeroonetwothree 4y agoThe difference is pretty small though. Like 30 points on the SAT
- Georgelemental 4y agoSmall differences in mean generally mean larger differences in number of people above a high threshold.
- jkhdigital 4y agoSmall differences in the means of two normal distributions still result in huge differences at the tails. Suppose the top 10% of SAT math scorers make the best engineers. This population will be overwhelmingly male even if there is only a modest difference in the mean scores.