According to the research about gender comparisons in general cognitive ability,
a. when people construct the tests that measure general intelligence, they intentionally include questions that favor males.
b. females typically show greater variability than males on cognitive tasks.
c. males typically perform much better on tasks of general knowledge, such as history or geography.
d. there are no systematic gender differences in the ability to perform two tasks at the same time.
D
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