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Book cover for Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
There is an almost complete overlap between men and women’s math scores. The majority of women have a male math twin: a man with the same math score as they do.
Daniel Cornwall
While the is a gap in the average math scores between men and women, there is almost total overlap in score distribution.
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