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Why are (the best) women so good at chess? Participation rates and gender differences in intellectual domains
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A popular explanation for the small number of women at the top level of intellectually demanding activities from chess to science appeals to biological differences in the intellectual abilities of men and women. An alternative explanation is that the extreme values in a large sample are likely to be greater than those in a small one. Although the performance of the 100 best German male chess players is better than that of the 100 best German women, we show that 96 per cent of the observed dif...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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+ McLeod, P
Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Experimental Psychology
+ Bilalić, M
Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Experimental Psychology
+ Smallbone, K
Institution:
University of Manchester
Department:
Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology
+ Gobet, F
Institution:
Brunel University
Department:
Centre for Cognition and Neuroimaging
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Royal Society Publishing Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B
- Volume:
- 276
- Issue:
- 1659
- Pages:
- 1161-1165
- Publication date:
- 2009-03-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1471-2954
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- Language:
- English
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- Local pid:
- ora:3792
- Deposit date:
- 2010-06-22
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- Royal Society
- Copyright date:
- 2009
- Notes:
- The full-text of this article is not currently available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page. Citation: Bilalić, M. et al. (2009). 'Why are (the best) women so good at chess? Participation rates and gender differences in intellectual domains', Proc. R. Soc. B 276(1659), 1161-1165. [Available at http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/].
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