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Social psychology

the hypothesis that male scores on cognitive tests vary more widely than female scores, producing more males at both the top and bottom of distributions.

In social psychology, greater male variability hypothesis refers to the hypothesis that male scores on cognitive tests vary more widely than female scores, producing more males at both the top and bottom of distributions. This meaning comes from Hedges (1995) in Science.[1]

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  1. Hedges, L. V., & Nowell, A. (1995). Sex Differences in Mental Test Scores, Variability, and Numbers of High-Scoring Individuals. Science, 269(5220), 41-45. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.7604277

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