On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, ravi wrote:
> if one were to use entrance testing as a substitute for IQ, then even
> the above may not be the case: boys do better than girls (iirc) in these
> tests, but girls do better at college. is it because girls are
> book-smarter? or because they don't spend so much time in frat parties?
Do you mean the SAT? As you might expect, SAT is strongly correlated with IQ score (they both measure the same kind of academic smarts). For both men and women, SAT (like IQ) is a reasonable predictor of academic achievement. It's not a perfect predictor, so that's why small gender differences in the math section of the SAT (say) do not result in a substantial gender difference in college outcomes. (No speculation other than acknowledgement of error variance is necessary here!)
Miles