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- From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman)
- Subject: Re: Branding kids, IQ tests, smart vs dumb (Was: Re: Seminar Program)
- In-Reply-To: ann@cco.caltech.edu's message of 26 Jan 1993 17:10:33 GMT
- To: ann@cco.caltech.edu (Ann Terese Heil)
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- In article <1k3ra9INN8l3@gap.caltech.edu> ann@cco.caltech.edu (Ann Terese Heil) writes:
- MIT did some recent studies in which they looked at SATs versus
- performance once admitted (via grade point average, I believe).
- They found that SAT scores underpredicted the performance of female
- students relative to male students. That is, for a group of students
- having close SAT scores, the females in the group attained higher
- grades than the male students. I believe they changed their admissions
- policies according, to give less weight to SAT scores.
-
- That is an interesting fact. Did this study control for choice of
- major ? Otherwise the tendency of women to choose majors which
- generally are considered less scientifically rigorous and
- consequentially are often graded less strictly could explain the
- discrepancy without any bias in the SATs. Or possibly there is just a
- bias in favor of women in grading ?
-
- Carl Edman
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