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Ethington, Corinna A.; Wolfe, Lee M. – Research in Higher Education, 1986
The exploratory data analysis method of median polishing was used to examine patterns of differences in male and female performance on the Graduate Record Examination quantitative and analytical tests. Males were found overall to outperform females on the quantitative measure but not on the analytical measure. (Author/MLW)
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