Suppose That Your Local School Board Recently Asked That the Differential

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Multiple Choice

Suppose that your local school board recently asked that the Differential Aptitude Test be administered to all Grade 5 students.The board is particularly interested in the scores from the spatial relations and abstract reasoning sections.Based on your knowledge of average sex differences in cognitive abilities, how would you expect students to score?

• A)Males will score higher than females on both sections.
• B)Males will score higher than females on the spatial relations section.
• C)Females will score higher than males on both sections.
• D)Females will score higher than males on the abstract reasoning section.

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