Males are more varied across many psychological traits. Standardization is a huge loss in education (see Bloom’s Two Sigma Problem). I would expect standardization to have worse losses for people who are less typical. This is a simple way to explain greater female academic success, but I have not been able to find discussion of this idea.
Males are more varied across many psychological traits. Standardization is a huge loss in education (see Bloom’s Two Sigma Problem). I would expect standardization to have worse losses for people who are less typical. This is a simple way to explain greater female academic success, but I have not been able to find discussion of this idea.