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Could you point us to some examples, please? Not saying you are wrong, but the researcher cited in the article didn't convince me. She just said "there are so many factors we can't possibly interpret them", but didn't really give a counter-argument. Sounded more political correctness to me.

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My fiancee is a psych researcher; this is just what she's told me (via rant) a number of times. Plenty of studies showing significant gender differences show up on sagepub.com, but the findings usually have culture mixed in as well, and they aren't nearly as strong as Cosmo and the rest of pop culture would have us believe.

More precisely, the variation within a gender group is much larger than the variation between genders.

> variation within a gender group is much larger than the variation between genders.

You're measuring the wrong thing. If you look at the top percentage of performers in these fields then the differences become striking.

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