Educational Psychology / Unit 9 EDP 0805 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Gender Similarities
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The idea
The gender similarities hypothesis, supported by Janet Hyde's review, holds that most cognitive gender differences are small, shrinking and far smaller than the variation within each gender.
In practice
Meta-analyses find that boys do not outperform girls in math, and girls are not more talkative than boys.
Where people slip
Knowing a student's gender predicts little about that student's abilities.
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