Summit
2024 APS Global Psychological Science Summit · 2024
Explaining Sex Differences in Task Performance Using Model Y
- 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.
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