Departament d'Economia de l'Empresa, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Ctra de Valldemossa km 7,5, 07122, Palma, Spain.
Department of Economics, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam, 3062PA, Netherlands.
Nat Commun. 2019 Sep 3;10(1):3798. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-11691-y.
Females tend to perform worse than males on math and science tests, but they perform better on verbal reading tests. Here, by analysing performance during a cognitive test, we provide evidence that females are better able to sustain their performance during a test across all of these topics, including math and science (study 1). This finding suggests that longer cognitive tests decrease the gender gap in math and science. By analysing a dataset with multiple tests that vary in test length, we find empirical support for this idea (study 2).
女性在数学和科学测试中的表现往往不如男性,但在语言阅读测试中表现更好。在这里,通过分析认知测试中的表现,我们提供了证据表明,女性在包括数学和科学在内的所有这些主题的测试中,更能保持其表现的稳定性(研究 1)。这一发现表明,更长的认知测试会缩小数学和科学领域的性别差距。通过分析一个具有多种不同测试长度的数据集,我们发现了这一观点的实证支持(研究 2)。