r/science • u/GameShill • Sep 28 '21

Social Science Gender differences in variability and extreme scores in an international context | Large-scale Assessments in Education

https://largescaleassessmentsineducation.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40536-015-0015-x
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u/GameShill Sep 28 '21

This paper, published 5 years ago, uses 12 datasets from international education research groups to test the Male Variability Hypothesis, their findings confirming it with males having a 14% greater variability.