Your Text Reports That in College, Men and Women Perform

question 26

Multiple Choice

Your text reports that in college, men and women perform equivalently in their math courses. How might one interpret this finding with respect to biological and cultural explanations of the gender differences in math achievement?

• A) It supports the biological account. Men and women are past puberty by this point.
• B) It is completely irrelevant to either account.
• C) It seems to support the cultural account. By the time they reach college, the women enrolled in math courses probably receive as much encouragement as do their male classmates.
• D) It cannot be explained by either account.

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