No Gap Found In Math Abilities of Girls, Boys

sciencehabit writes "For anyone who still believes that boys are better at math than girls, a massive new study published today in Science shows there's no difference. 'Among students with the highest test scores, the team did find that white boys outnumbered white girls by about two to one. Among Asians, however, that result was nearly reversed. Hyde says that suggests that cultural and social factors, not gender alone, influence how well students perform on tests.' But the researchers do note a disturbing trend towards omitting harder kinds of math questions from standardized tests."

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So if you want american kids with best math scores

[voss]

White guys need to start hooking up
with more asian girls....hmmm

Assuming we do this , 20 years from now
our country will have plenty of really hot
nerdy eurasian girls that are math geniuses :)

All in favor?

xkcd

[Luke_22]

no, no!
This is how it works!