Girls Really Are Just as Good as Boys at Math
Tests around the world prove Larry Summers wrong
- Girls are just as good as boys at math worldwide, a meta-analysis of tests administered in 69 countries confirms.
- The analysis, in the journal Psychological Bulletin, found “that on average across all the nations the gender difference was negligible,” according to the lead author, Dr. Nicole Else-Quest of Villanova University.
- There are significant differences in abilities in some individual countries, with girls significantly besting boys in Jordan and Bahrain while boys test better in Tunisia and South Korea.
- But most countries — including the US and Germanic nations — showed little gender difference on the two math tests that assessed nearly half a million boys and girls between the ages of 14 to 16 around the world.
- The researchers found an intriguing association between a very low percentage of women in the national legislative body and outsize results for boys.
- Else-Quest told Scientific American: “[T]hese gender differences that we are seeing are not because they have different brains.. It’s because of social forces — which suggests that they can be changed.”
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