The Male Advantage: A step by step blueprint for achieving Outlier Male status

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Some arithmetic tasks, however, may not involve much language processing. Distinct from exact arithmetic, approximate arithmetic (e.g., “Of 3 and 8, which number is closer to the answer to the problem 4+5?”) is believed to involve less verbal processing but more number sense and visuospatial processing ( Dehaene et al., 1999). Studies have found that approximate arithmetic could be performed without symbols and language ( Pica et al., 2004). Young children without formal education can perform large-number symbolic approximate arithmetic ( Gilmore et al., 2007). Neuroimaging studies further supported the distinction between exact and approximate arithmetic. It has been found that exact arithmetic relies on the language system, whereas approximate arithmetic relies on the numerical magnitude processing system or the internal “number line” ( Dehaene et al., 1999). Specifically, approximate arithmetic recruits the parietal lobe, which is involved in visuo-spatial processing. S c o r e i j = γ 00 + γ 01 ( M a j o r ) + γ 10 ( G e n d e r ) + γ 20 ( C o ⁢ var i a t e s ) + μ 0 j + γ i j Results and Discussion The identification of potential moderators is a crucial step in a meta-analysis (Borenstein, Hedges, Higgins, & Rothstein, 2009), although it also is important to limit the number of moderators considered to reduce the risk of Type 1 error in hypothesis testing (Lipsey & Wilson, 2001). This is why Lipsey and Wilson ( 2001) suggested that the identification of moderators should be based on what past researchers have considered as important in their empirical studies. Accordingly, the set of potential moderators that we have identified in what follows stems from past literature. Task As men tend to be taller than women, the volume of their lungs is typically 20 per cent bigger. “Therefore they can take deeper breaths,” says Prof Lee. “This tends to give men a slight advantage because they are able to get more air into their body, leading to greater oxygenation via the bloodstream – and therefore more endurance.” Bjoertomt, O., Cowey, A., and Walsh, V. (2002). Spatial neglect in near and far space investigated by repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation. Brain 125, 2012–2022. doi: 10.1093/brain/awf211

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De Frias, C. M., Nilsson, L.-G., and Herlitz, A. (2006). Sex differences in cognition are stable over a 10-year period in adulthood and old age. Aging Neuropsychol. Cogn. 13, 574–587. doi: 10.1080/13825580600678418Hyde, J. S., Lindberg, S. M., Linn, M. C., Ellis, A. B., and Williams, C. C. (2008). Gender similarities characterize math performance. Science 321, 494–495. doi: 10.1126/science.1160364 To achieve these goals, a two stage process was used, similar to the approach proposed by Voyer and Voyer ( 2014) in the analysis of sex differences in scholastic achievement. Specifically, because many researchers used a variety of relevant measures of visual-spatial working memory in their design, the typical fixed effect or random effect meta-analysis would require collapsing across these tests or randomly selecting one effect size to avoid violation of the homogeneity of effect sizes assumption (Borenstein et al., 2009). Accordingly, the present analysis relied on the multilevel modeling approach to meta-analysis (Hox, 2008; Raudenbush & Bryk, 2002), because it makes no assumption concerning independence of effects and it applies readily to the hierarchical structure of a meta-analysis. Therefore, as a first step, computation of the overall effect size and of the moderator analysis relied on this approach. The variables task, year of publication, publication status, mean age of sample, age coded categorically, testing medium, stimulus type, dependent variable, and type of memory were considered in the moderator analysis. Finally, as the standard error calculated for each effect size in a meta-analysis reflects an estimate of the variance for individual effect sizes (Borenstein et al., 2009), it was possible to compute “variance-known” (or V-known) hierarchical linear models. Effect sizes were treated as random effects whereas moderators were treated as fixed effects in what amounted to mixed models. It should be noted that the V-known modeling results in the precision weighted estimates of effect sizes typical of other approaches to meta-analysis (Raudenbush & Bryk, 2002). Kinsella K, Gist YJ. Gender and aging: Mortality and health. International Brief—Gender and Aging: Mortality and

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Rubenstein, R. N. (1985). Computational estimation and related mathematical skills. J. Res. Math. Educ. 16, 106–119. doi: 10.2307/748368 paleodemographic analysis. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 1989; 80:49–58. [ PubMed : 2801905] In Chapter 7 “Deviance, Crime, and Social Control”, we talked about “white privilege,” the advantages that whites automatically have in a racist society whether or not they realize they have these advantages. Many scholars also talk about male privilege, or the advantages that males automatically have in a patriarchal society whether or not they realize they have these advantages (McIntosh, 2007). than on declines in health or functioning with age ( Brunet-Rossinni and Austad, 2006). Research onMarmot MG, Smith GD, Stansfeld S, Patel C, North F, Head J, White I, Brunner E, Feeney A. Health inequalities among British civil servants: The This combination of power and strength is part of why men have an advantage in short and middle distance running events. How men become better with age, and how more men need to work towards that peak rather than ruining everything young and letting their best years become their worst. Critics decry all this as unfair. Sex is one of the most powerful and consistent predictors of performance. Males have significant advantages over females in nearly every sport (see chart). Some teenage males outperform women’s world-record holders. In running, they are consistently around 10% faster than females, whether in sprints or the marathon. In Ms Hubbard’s sport of Olympic weightlifting, the gap is 25% or more, even after correcting for an athlete’s size. The Olympic record for females in the 69kg bodyweight category, for instance, is a total of 286kg. For males of the same weight, it is 357kg. Without sex categories, females would be absent from most elite sport. Categorical independent variables were dummy coded into k - 1 dichotomous vectors (where k represents the number of categories) for consideration in the multilevel analysis. Following this form of coding, the intercept represents the mean estimated effect size for the category coded as zero in all vectors (reference category) and its test of significance indicates whether it is significantly different from zero. The coefficient for each vector represents the difference between the mean for the category coded as “1” in that vector and the intercept. However, estimated effect sizes (i.e., the sum of the intercept and the coefficient for each coded vector) are reported to simplify the presentation of results. All significance testing was based on the robust estimates of standard errors that are routinely computed by HLM7.