PSYC 3480 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Faraday Effect, Reading Disability, Operational Definition
28 Mar 2013
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When people who are not experts discuss gender comparisons in thinking they almost emphasize gender difference. Furthermore, they typically highlight biological explanations for the small number of comparisons that reveal significant gender differences. Biases can interfere at every stage in research. If we measure some ability, and then we create one grapy for the scores of males and another graph for the scores of females, the two distributions of scores will overlap substantially. A frequency distribution tells us how many people in a sample receive each score. When the two distributions show such a small overlap this pattern tells us that they two distributions are very different. In real life situations, distributions of male and females are likely to show a small separation and a large overlap: researchers seldom find gender differences in all situations. We cannot make general statements about gender differences. Gender differences can me modified, they are not inevitable.
