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From: esc@uxa.cso.uiuc.EDU (elizabeth)
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Subject: Re: SAT scores - sexist?
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Date: 6 May 91 14:29:38 GMT
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tex@obsidian.wpi.EDU (Lonnie Paul Mask) writes:
>>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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I very purposely put words like *some* and not words like *all* into
my article so I wouldn't get flames like this. Because we live in a
pretty sexist world, a lot of women don't know the difference between
a spark plug and a hole in the ground, and a lot of men could'nt boil
water to save their lives...yeah yeah both sexes are *capable* of
doing these things but a lot of people don't.

I wasn't making assumptions about anything I was merely repeating what
I read. Don't be so touchy.

elizabeth.