Why Girls Beat Boys at School and Lose to Them at the Office

Re:Why Girls Beat Boys at School and Lose to Them at the Office by pravda on Thursday February 28, 2019 @05:04PM (#19275723)

Girls get better grades then boys. That is because grades measure, or at least are influenced by, conformity.

Boys do better on tests then girls. Because tests are objective and not subjective.

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Re:Why Girls Beat Boys at School and Lose to Them at the Office by smt88 on Thursday February 28, 2019 @05:18PM (#19275827)

Tests are not objective. Have you ever tried to design an unbiased survey question? It’s really hard.

Tests are biased toward native speakers of a language and people who share a culture with the test creators. The subset of questions can have a bias inherent to them. There are just a million ways that they’re not “objective,” and that’s not even getting into the context around the taking of the test!