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One important point discussed at the beginning of Chapter 5 is that females and males typically have overlapping distributions for their scores on cognitive tests. Which of the following statements is not a reasonable conclusion from this finding?
 
  a. Many males and females receive similar scores.
  b. You can often find a male-female pair whose scores are the reverse of the general trend.
  c. The samples are likely to be biased.
  d. The variability within each group is usually larger than the size of the gender difference.

Question 2

The discussion about research on cognitive abilities (Chapter 5) emphasized that
 
  a. gender differences tend to be consistent across different situations.
  b. frequency distributions typically show a large overlap between the scores of males and females.
  c. the size of the difference between the average score for males and the average score for females is typically larger than the size of the difference among all the scores for females.
  d. in general, differences within each gender for cognitive abilities are smaller than they are with social characteristics.



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Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

B



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