However, they will most likely retain gender stereotypes about other domains, as well as the more basic assertion that the genders differ in profound ways.
Thus, to address the more basic question of how males and females differ across domains, researchers need to go beyond meta-analyses in specific domains. Overall, researchers found greater support for the gender-similarities hypothesis than the gender-differences hypothesis. However, while overall observed difference between genders was small, they caution that it would be incorrect to conclude that the difference was nonexistent or trivial.
They also suggest that, although the distributions of men and women overlapped on the majority of variables, they are unable to assume that the distributions had identical shapes. For example, data suggest that men may demonstrate more variability than women on some intellectual and cognitive domains, meaning that on these domains, more men score further away from the average score for men than women do from the average score for women.
This resulted in a map of between-group t values for each child. To determine whether there were any differences that were consistent at the group level, the absolute value of these individual-level between-group t value maps were then subjected to a one-sample t test vs a critical t value of 2. If there were a significant difference between neural maturity calculated to adults of the same vs different gender as the child, the one-sample t test should reveal a positive and significant effect, which would indicate that the absolute values of the individual-level between-group t values are significantly above 2.
Instead, the whole-brain one-sample t test revealed that at the group level, the absolute values of the individual-level between-group t values were significantly below the critical t value of 2.
In other words, the majority of individual-level between-group t values were less than the critical t value of 2. This indicates that overall, the differences between neural maturity when calculated to adults of the same vs different gender were not different, so neural maturity was not biased by the gender of the adult.
To compare how similar children were to each other, intersubject correlations were calculated across children following the same procedures as for calculating neural maturity. This resulted in two maps for each child: one representing the average neural similarity of a child to children of the same gender and one representing the average neural similarity of a child to children of the different gender.
Functional data collected during the traditional fMRI paradigm were analyzed using a general linear model random effects analysis. There were four regressors of interest corresponding to the four stimulus categories , one regressor for button press, and six regressors of no interest corresponding to the motion parameters obtained during preprocessing.
Analyses were then conducted using R version 3. This function returns two t values t 1 and t 2. For statistical equivalence, both t values must be statistically significant. Statistical equivalence is rejected if either t 1 or t 2 does not reach significance. Math skills were evaluated by administering the TEMA-3 22 to participants aged 8 and younger.
The TEMA-3 tests a variety of math concepts and is standardized for 3—8-year-old children. Further information on research design is available in the Nature Research Reporting Summary linked to this article.
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