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From: tex@obsidian.wpi.EDU (Lonnie Paul Mask)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: SAT scores - sexist?
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Date: 2 May 91 22:00:59 GMT
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esc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (elizabeth) writes:

>al885@cwns9.ins.cwru.EDU ("Gerard Pinzone a.k.a. Ataru Moroboshi") writes:
>>How many times do I have to say this? There has been absolutley NO
>>proof that I can find to prove the SAT's are sexist. I am pleading for
>>ANYONE to give me ANY examples that would show this. I am willing to
>>listen to anyone who has some proof.

>Something I've always heard as one example is what the testmakers use
>for material in reading comprehension questions. I've read that in
>some RC questions, the material is skewed for sex, for example one
>article will be about car maintenance or rocket science. The saying
>goes that the boys have a better chance of answering the questions
>just on a matter of information they already have rather than actually
>understanding what the article is about.

well, before you go making assumptions about what sex knows what, i
currently only know where the spark plugs and the oil filter are(in
general) on some of the larger cars.  and my dad.s a great cook,
especially since he has gotten to stay home for all my life due to his
epilepsy.

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