A massive new study has found that women and men have the exact same mathematics abilities.
That’s the headline for the day. Tomorrow’s edition of Science will have the actual results posted, however the highlights look to be that the message that has been the norm for 18 years will have even more support as of tomorrow, with the “trivial” gap in math found by Janet Hyde and her team now vanished as better data has been collected and twenty years have passed.
One thing that the article I linked to notes that I feel the need to say something explicitly about is that indeed women do score on average poorer than men on the math section of the SAT. In a “be cautious how you quote your statistics moment,” they say that although this is true, more women take the SAT, proportionally, than do men, and so you’re reaching deeper into the talent pool of women than you are men when you take the numbers, so sample bias skews that particular statistic so that it’s non-useful.
One of us will be blogging more about this article after it comes out. I’ll be on travel this weekend, so it will probably be someone else, but it will be here.
Hooray! I don’t, however have the same math skills as Gander.
