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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The OP's observation -- boys and girls have similar average scores on state math exams, but boys outnumber girls among very high SAT scores -- was the (in retrospect, now quaint) original reason that Larry Summers was defrocked as president of Harvard. Summers pointed out that while male/female average scores are similar, the spread of scores (measured by the standard deviation) is larger for men than women. In general this doesn't matter much, and at most colleges it doesn't matter than much. But at the VERY extremes, such as Harvard students or Harvard professors, you'll find more men than women. (You'll also find more very low male scores.)

While this was controversial when Summers said it, the results are pretty straightforward once you understand the differences in the variation, not the mean, of math scores. [/quote]

Do you trust that this is biologically determined when the whole system is run at the top by sexist people who have incredibly low judgment like Larry Summers?[/quote]

This is the problem: truths are abused to excuse unjustified behavior. For example, maybe group A does have more high scores than group B. After you filter for high scores, like college admissions or objective tests, the do the remaining members of group A still have higher scores than the remaining members of group B? [/quote]

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