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Higher Educational Academy Minding the gap: Ethnicity, gender and degree attainment

Higher Educational Academy Minding the gap: Ethnicity, gender and degree attainment. 22 January 2008. A cautionary tale: gender and maths. Sex differences are small Sex differences are diminishing Sex differences are artifactual. overlap. standard deviations. Looking deeper.

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Higher Educational Academy Minding the gap: Ethnicity, gender and degree attainment

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  1. Higher Educational AcademyMinding the gap:Ethnicity, gender and degree attainment 22 January 2008

  2. A cautionary tale: gender and maths • Sex differences are small • Sex differences are diminishing • Sex differences are artifactual overlap standard deviations

  3. Looking deeper Pearson product-moment correlation = 0.71

  4. Getting serious about equality • Variability and interaction • Means are misleading • But differential impact is not (necessarily) bias • Thinking systemically about systems • Systems are more than their components • Properties are emergent • Often become exquisitely attuned to their contexts • Design experiments vs. naturalistic experiments • Interventions often yield unintended consequences

  5. Access to medicine • Thinking systemically about reform • Recruitment • Selection • Retention

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