Study: Women performed better on a math test when using someone else's name

Re:Study: Women performed better on a math test when using s... by lawl on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @10:38AM (#5978049)

Urgh, the summary says basically nothing and is in my opinion fairly vague. And I don't feel like paying $37 bucks to read this once. Also:

> The effect was stronger for women who cared more about maths.

No shit? People who are more interested in something are usually better at it?

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Re:Study: Women performed better on a math test when using s... by pradocchia on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @10:46AM (#5978096)

> People who are more interested in something are usually better at it?

Yes, but no. It shows that women who care more about math are more sensitive to the reputation/stereotype effects, presumably because they do care.

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Re:Study: Women performed better on a math test when using s... by krisoft on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @11:04AM (#5978229)

Paper is accesible from the second author's website. Haven't finished reading it yet.

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Re:Study: Women performed better on a math test when using s... by mtrimpe on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @10:47AM (#5978108)

The summary says that women are less good at math when doing a test under their own name rather than under an alias.

This effect is more pronounced the more the women cares about her math performance.

What exactly is vague about that?

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