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Hi, I'm Rachel. I'm a twenty year-old college student from Rhode Island, living in the big, bright New York City. I'm probably most accurately defined by my perpetual use of sarcasm as well as my oftentimes all-consuming anxiety. Also, I oftentimes have the compulsion to quote Mean Girls.
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“[F]or the first several years the SAT was offered, males scored higher than females on the Math section but females achieved higher scores on the Verbal section. ETS policy-makers determined that the Verbal test needed to be “balanced” more in favor of males, and added questions pertaining to politics, business and sports to the Verbal portion. Since that time, males have outscored females on both the Math and Verbal sections. Dwyer notes that no similar effort has been made to “balance” the Math section, and concludes that, “It could be done, but it has not been, and I believe that probably an unconscious form of sexism underlies this pattern. When females show the superior performance, ‘balancing’ is required; when males show the superior performance, no adjustments are necessary.” ”
“Gender Bias in College Admissions Tests”, FairTest.org. (via vaginawoolf)
We were told our English Lang GCSEs were often about sport or politics because boys often underperformed in that exam. I can’t even fathom the number of things wrong with this kind of thinking.
(via benedictatorship)
And there’s nothing unconscious about that kind of sexism.
(via grrspit)
(Source: fairtest.org, via xsinclair)
