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...Xie said Summers’ suggestion that this apparent gender gap accounts for the under-representation of females in science and engineering is “too simplistic...
While Shauman said that “people who go on to be Nobel laureates in the science probably are in that higher tail” of scores on standardized tests, both she and Xie emphasized that individuals can succeed in science even if they don’t perform amazingly well on achievement exams as high school students...
Summers read a substantial portion of Xie and Shauman’s acclaimed 2003 book Women in Science: Career Processes and Outcomes, published by Harvard University Press, in preparation for Friday’s conference...
...Neither of these two assumptions is supported by the scientific evidence,” Xie and Shauman conclude...
Summers referred repeatedly to the work of University of Michigan sociologist Yu Xie and his University of California-Davis colleague Kimberlee A. Shauman, whose analysis of achievement test results shows a higher degree of variance in scores among men than among women. While males and females posted similar average scores, males were more likely to fall at the higher and lower ends of the distribution. (Please see related article, page...