Seems like you just skipped to the graphs which showed men in the control group doing slightly better than men in the "affirmation" group.
If you read the article it does not suggest that men did worse because of the affirmation excercise. These were two different groups of men, so presumably the control group happened to be a smarter bunch. Or maybe the other class took place at 8am and everybody was asleep, etc.
Of course it would be interesting to see this done on a larger scale with more details of statistical significance of the numbers.
If you read the article it does not suggest that men did worse because of the affirmation excercise. These were two different groups of men, so presumably the control group happened to be a smarter bunch.
In which case we can equally well say that the women in the non-control group just happened to be a smarter bunch. Even more easily, since the sample size of women was even smaller than those of the men. If the results aren't statistically significant I'm not sure why they were even published.
First, the difference for each gender respectively of the scores across the control and "affirmation" groups isn't what they care about. It is the difference between gender within each group.
I can't say whether the results are statistically significant, but there are error bars on the graphs and the scientists who did the experiment seem to think the results are significant.
>If the results aren't statistically significant I'm not sure why they were even published.
I'm going to go with "because there's a lot of money available for people that show that women are better at science then men"; doh, I mean "more equal" of course, not better ....
If you read the article it does not suggest that men did worse because of the affirmation excercise. These were two different groups of men, so presumably the control group happened to be a smarter bunch. Or maybe the other class took place at 8am and everybody was asleep, etc.
Of course it would be interesting to see this done on a larger scale with more details of statistical significance of the numbers.