Monday, October 04, 2021

Tuesday evening links, all charts | American Enterprise Institute - AEI

Tuesday evening links, all charts | American Enterprise Institute - AEI
2. Chart of the Day II (above). Following a long-term historical reality, high school boys have greater math aptitude and out-perform high school girls on the Math SAT, especially for the highest test scores. In 2021, 153 boys scored 700-800 for every 100 girls. Not. Even. Close.
This statistically significant gender math difference suggests, that despite the ongoing efforts and diversion of millions of dollars in funding, it may be impossible to ever “close the gender gap” for de
grees in engineering and computer science as so many universities seemed determined to futilely achieve. 
Sorry for exposing the statistical falsehood that “there just aren’t any gender differences anymore in math aptitude.”...Read all.

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