PSYC 2740 Lecture Notes - Gender Role, Standard Deviation, Meta-Analysis
20 May 2014
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Sex differences: average differences between women and men on certain characteristics or personality characteristics, with no prejudgement about the cause of the difference. Gender: social interpretations of what is means to be a man or a woman. Gender stereotypes: beliefs about how men and women differ, or are supposed to differ, in contrast to what the actual differences are. The science and politics of studying sex and gender. The most commonly used statistic in meta-analysis is the effect size, or d statistic: d statistic is used to express a difference in standard deviation units. A central focus on the debate on sex differences revolves around whether sex differences are small and relatively inconsequential or substantial and important. Those who describe them as small and inconsequential are said to take the minimalist position: argue that. Empirically, most findings of sex differences show small magnitudes of effect.
