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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The percentage of grand chess masters are predominately male as are the participants who qualify to represent their countries in the international math Olympiad. There are 618 participants this year and only 67 are female.

Maybe there is really a biological difference in math and chess ability between males and females? I don’t think researches can get funding to study this issue but there has to be a reason.  [/quote]

I haven’t seen any studies on chess (probably because I haven’t looked), but there absolutely have been studies on math ability and recent studies show no difference between the sexes. There was a consistent difference in older studies, before roughly the 1980s, but the difference narrowed around the 90s and started disappearing in the 2000s. The studies just tracked math scores on a large scale so can’t prove causation, but the obvious inference is that girls’ scores have gone up as “girls can’t do math” stereotypes have lost some strength.

Those numbers are only for the US, so I’m not sure what the trends are globally. But the discussion that I saw noted that both boys AND girls in many other countries do better than US boys on average. The US isn’t very good at teaching math.[/quote]

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