Category: Bias

Girls lead boys in academic achievement globally

From the University of Missouri-Columbia media release: Considerable attention has been paid to how boys’ educational achievements in science and math compare to girls’ accomplishments in those areas, often leading to… Read more »

Girls’ verbal skills make them better at arithmetic, study finds

From the Association for Psychological Science media release: While boys generally do better than girls in science and math**, some studies have found that girls do better in arithmetic. A new… Read more »

Women less likely to hold academic medical leadership roles than men with mustaches

From the University of Pennsylvania media release: Thirteen percent of department leader positions at top academic medical institutions in the United States are held by women, while nearly 20 percent are… Read more »

Protecting a few students from negative stereotypes benefits entire classroom

From the Association for Psychological Science media release: Interventions targeted at individual students can improve the classroom environment and trigger a second wave of benefits for all classmates, new research shows…. Read more »

Marginalized groups use the Internet to broaden their networks, rather than reinforce ties

From the Indiana University media release: A new research study from Indiana University supports the commonly held view that people from disadvantaged groups are using the Internet to broaden their social… Read more »

Psychiatric assessments for predicting violence are ineffective

From the University of Queen Mary London media release: Standard approaches for investigating risk of violence in psychiatric patients and prisoners are inaccurate and should be abandoned in all future studies,… Read more »