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

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 15 July 2014 09:41:40PM 1 point [-]

Percent passing is not very informative because those sitting the test have been preselected. According to this spreadsheet, 50% more boys take Maths and more than twice as many boys take further maths. Also, it claims that the A* rate is twice as high for boys, at both levels, though the A rate is the same (which is weird).

(the spreadsheet has several sheets, but the link should go to the correct one - gender)