The discussion about research on cognitive abilities (Chapter 5) emphasized that
a. gender differences tend to be consistent across different situations.
b. frequency distributions typically show a large overlap between the scores of males and females.
c. the size of the difference between the average score for males and the average score for females is typically larger than the size of the difference among all the scores for females.
d. in general, differences within each gender for cognitive abilities are smaller than they are with social characteristics.
B
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