TY - JOUR
AU - Feingold, Alan
AB - Review of Educational Research Spring 1992, Vol 62, No. 1, pp. 89-90 The Greater Male Variability Controversy: Science Versus Politics Alan Feingold Yale University Research on gender differences has consistently been surrounded by controversy because of the political implications of the findings. The conclusions drawn by Cattell, Hall, Thorndike, and other early proponents of the greater male variability hypothesis—recounted in my article and in Noddings's sociohistorical commentary— were not justified by the available data. Their conclusions, which almost certainly predated their examinations of data, were essentially these scholars' personal beliefs about differences between the sexes and their political opinions regarding the roles of men and women in society. It is unfortunate that their views were passed off as scientific facts to maintain the status quo of their era. Noddings described my article as "oddly neutral." I prefer "appropriately scien­ tific." The points she raised have all been noted before by others (who were duly referenced in my review), and there was no need to rehash them. Instead, I detailed the limitations of past analyses, conducted new analyses with superior data sets, and interpreted the results by today's more rigorous standards. The scope of my quantita­ tive review was intentionally 
TI - The Greater Male Variability Controversy: Science Versus Politics
JF - Review of Educational Research
DO - 10.3102/00346543062001089
DA - 1992-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/the-greater-male-variability-controversy-science-versus-politics-TgjZHiMCdJ
SP - 89
EP - 90
VL - 62
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -