Summit

2024 APS Global Psychological Science Summit · 2024

Explaining Sex Differences in Task Performance Using Model Y

Virtual · October 2024

Posters · Behavioral Genetics

  • Hoben Thomas
    Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

Abstract

Model Y explains sex differences unexplained for a century, e.g., reading tests. Test means and variances for males and females exhibit inequality patterns.  These patterns  are expected outcomes under Y a convolution which models X-linked recessive genes assumed to cause the observed sex differences.

Gender

← Poster Session - Holding