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| Date : 7/28/2008 |
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Hour : 1:40:25 PM |
| Resource : TIME |
| Summery : A new report by researchers at University of Wisconsin and University of California, Berkeley, aims to overturn the long-held belief that girls aren't as good at math as boys. According to new data, the researchers say, that gender gap has become a myth - a finding they hope will help shift the very real gender gap in math, science and technology professions, which are currently dominated by men. |
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Janet Hyde, a psychologist at University of Wisconsin, and her (all-female) collaborators culled data from federally mandated annual math tests administered to 7.2 million second- through 11th-grade students in 10 states. They found little difference between boys' and girs' average math scores. Hyde also searched for a gender difference in the outlying scores - that is, whether more boys were among the top math scorers than girls - but again found negligible difference, although boys did still slightly outnumber girls in the 99th percentile.
*** Read more at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080727/hl_time/themythofthemathgendergap
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