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brain sizes: Einstein's and women's: pop quiz

John Knight johnknight at usa.com
Tue Jul 23 10:32:04 EST 2002


"Jen Larson" <straycat at udel.edu> wrote in message
news:3D3C4B28.4EB4357B at udel.edu...
>
>
> John Knight wrote:
>
> > "Jen Larson" <straycat at udel.edu> wrote in message
> > news:3D385666.9FB0957 at udel.edu...
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> > > > ps--pop quiz:  based on this poll, how do you feminazis believe that
> > people
> > > > would respond to the following 3 simple questions:
>
> > > > 1)  God created life.
>
> > > > 2)  Life evolved with no help from God.
>
> > > > 3)  Dunno.
>
> > > None of the above.
>
>
> > Now we know why, out of 38 questions, American girls would have gotten
the
> > correct answer if they had just guessed 13 of them (ONE THIRD of the
test),
> > their responses were lower than the standard error 9 of them, and their
> > responses were so close to the standard error that they can't be
considered
> > statistically significant on another 9 of them, don't we?
>
> Basically, I just don't care. If anyone answered other than C they are
> LYING!

You girls should have thought of that before.  If American girls had just
answered "C" to every question, 5-10% more of them would have gotten the
correct answer than they did.

What's the secret, Larson?  How did American girls manage to score LOWER on
ONE THIRD of the test than if they'd just guessed?  I'd bet you know why,
but just don't want to tell us http://christianparty.net/timssphysics.htm

John Knight





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