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Pat Hausman:


>>I've tried to find a source expressing this. But everyone I've asked 
>>for a
source says it's so obvious that no one every wrote about it. This is hard to believe. I'd appreciate a reference if anyone knows one.>>


Steve,


Here is one reference for you, although its relevance may not be clear
from the abstract.


Within the paper is a table showing upper and lower tail ratios.


I'll send you a pdf of the paper--I don't think attachments are
allowed on h-bd.


Hedges (Larry) has also written several papers on the subject as it
pertains to cognitive ability.  The best known was published in
Science around 1995 and was called something like Sex differences in
test scores, variability and high-scoring individuals.


One of his other papers found a male advantage in the upper tail on 22
of 28 cognitive tests.  Not exactly news. Actually I thought the more
important point he made was that males outnumbered females in the
upper tail of a few tests that where the female mean exceeded the
male.


Patti




TITLE Gender-related differences on the College Board's Advanced
Placement and Achievement tests, 1982-1992.


ABSTRACT This study explored gender-related differences in
participation in and scores on the College Board's Advanced Placement
Program and Achievement examinations. In both sets of tests, the
numbers of male and female high school students were unequal for
several subject areas. The French, Spanish, and Modern Hebrew
examinations attracted many more female than male students, whereas
many more male than female students took the Physics, Chemistry, and
Computer Science examinations. There was little change in most of the
patterns of enrollment from 1982 through 1992. Male students had
moderately higher scores on the Physics, Chemistry, and Computer
Science tests, whereas female students had a slight advantage on some
of the language examinations. Although the patterns of gender-related
score differences were stable, there were some indications that gender
differences are narrowing, especially in the areas of American history
and computer science.


AUTHOR Stumpf, Heinrich; Stanley, Julian C.


AFFILIATION Johns Hopkins U, Ctr for Talented Youth, Baltimore, MD, US


SOURCE Journal of Educational Psychology. 1996 Jun Vol 88(2) 353-364