
Episode 55: Sex and Gender Part 2
The Science of Everything Podcast
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The Difference Between Men and Women in Mathematics
Is men better at math than women, or is there a different average or something like that? There's been an immense amount of study on this, and it's really... So, we won't go into the details of all of these studies because it's just overwhelming. Basically, if there is a difference, it's small and context dependent. If you were to plot these distributions and superimpose them, you would see that they overlap almost completely. From my research, there does seem to be some support for this greater diversity, greater male diversity,. But it doesn't seem to hold in all countries and in all across all racial groups either.
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