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Vaniver comments on Open thread, 7-14 July 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: gjm 13 July 2014 03:00:01PM 1 point [-]

If you take math test scores from high schoolers and use them as a measure of the population's underlying mathematical ability distribution and run the numbers, you predict basically the male-female split that Harvard has, which leaves nothing left for sexism to explain.

I've seen this said before (notably, Larry Summers took a lot of heat for saying it) and it seems like the kind of thing that might well be true, but I've never seen the actual numbers. Have you actually done the calculations?

Comment author: Vaniver 13 July 2014 08:12:59PM *  1 point [-]

Have you actually done the calculations?

I got the calculations from La Griffe, linked by gwern in a sibling comment. (For completeness, [1], [2], [3].) I have a vague recollection of checking them myself at some point.

Comment author: gjm 13 July 2014 08:26:51PM 2 points [-]

OK. Thanks.