{"id":127894,"date":"2015-09-06T10:16:25","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T16:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/06\/test-score-variations-and-the-social-expectations-that-breed-them.html"},"modified":"2015-09-10T09:51:59","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T15:51:59","slug":"test-score-variations-and-the-social-expectations-that-breed-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/06\/test-score-variations-and-the-social-expectations-that-breed-them.html","title":{"rendered":"Test score variations and the social expectations that breed them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#39;s some fascinating stuff laid out in this article about how social expectations on test performance appear to have a very real effect on those who are taking the test, sometimes in ways that I (from my own demographic cubbyholes) wouldn&#39;t expect. For example, women told to picture themselves as a &quot;stereotypical male&quot; were later able to perform much better on mental rotation \/ spatial visualization tests than those who were not.<\/p>\n<p>We tend to attribute to human hardware a lot of effects that are due to human software.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/mitadmissions.org\/blogs\/entry\/picture-yourself-as-a-stereotypical-male'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/dXdBtMVPKcOS4arr0nwRSKWc1nk_z8jvWW8E4xPD4GfhFNgaXNDPEeBu17m_AEz1c8YB1PuyOUB56BW7WtKhGSvuU81pXs35J_WLSimDTOmz-5mKhYcyKxp0yE7gTlrqEEVVVMX9saBGgOO1_VuL6w=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/mitadmissions.org\/blogs\/entry\/picture-yourself-as-a-stereotypical-male'>&ldquo;Picture yourself as a stereotypical male&rdquo; | MIT Admissions<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nSep 3, 2015 &mdash;<br \/>\n\tThere is empirical evidence to support the idea that males have a higher capacity for spatial reasoning than females. A large-scale 1995 meta-analysis found that on average, men outperform women in a cluster of tests related to spatial ability by nearly a full standard deviation, and in attempt to explain this, researchers have hypothesized about the impact of testosterone and&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/36GpxSZHf1Z'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#39;s some fascinating stuff laid out in this article about how social expectations on test performance appear to have a very real effect on those who are taking the test, sometimes in ways that I (from my own demographic cubbyholes) wouldn&#39;t expect. For example, women told to picture themselves as a &quot;stereotypical male&quot; were later &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/06\/test-score-variations-and-the-social-expectations-that-breed-them.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Test score variations and the social expectations that breed them&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,740,46,6,348],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-race-racism","category-school-daze","category-science","category-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4855,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/12\/17\/etiquette.html","url_meta":{"origin":127894,"position":0},"title":"Etiquette","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 17-Dec-03 9:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"Test your Etiquette Awareness. 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