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Re:American society is so focused on race that it is blind t... by zeroonetwothree on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @11:23PM (#33446590)
The difference is pretty small though. Like 30 points on the SAT
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Re:American society is so focused on race that it is blind t... by Georgelemental on Thursday November 03, 2022 @01:05AM (#33447236)
Small differences in mean generally mean larger differences in number of people above a high threshold.
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Re:American society is so focused on race that it is blind t... by jkhdigital on Thursday November 03, 2022 @01:10AM (#33447268)
Small differences in the means of two normal distributions still result in huge differences at the tails. Suppose the top 10% of SAT math scorers make the best engineers. This population will be overwhelmingly male even if there is only a modest difference in the mean scores.
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