Yuan Enters a Summer Program for High School Students Who

question 29

Multiple Choice

Yuan enters a summer program for high school students who are gifted in math.Of the 40 students,she is one of five girls.Her success in the program is likely to

• A)be greater because she wants to prove that girls can handle it.
• B)depend on making friends with the smartest boys.
• C)suffer because of the effect of stereotype threat.
• D)be unaffected by the unbalanced male-female ratio.

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