September 25, 2007

Battle of the Sexes: A Different Sort of Fluctuation Test

Posted by Eric at 7:00 am | Category: Links, Literature, Politics, Science

A new psychology paper is out in Intelligence claiming that differences in academic achievement by siblings of opposite sex are due to differences in variance of ability. I don’t know about the merits or demerits of the paper (I only skimmed the abstract and some of the rest of it), but the topic reminds me of remarks two years ago by a certain university president

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