SAT Stats by Gender and Race

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<p>I used to think the SAT was biased, but the the problem is bigger than that. </p>

<p>It's our entire educational system that is biased, and the SAT merely reflects that bias. Money means better educational opportunities for the rich - either in the form of private schools or elite suburban public schools. I've been in a number of schools, urban, suburban, catholic, and private. The differences are startling - not with the kids - but with the environment. "Stand and Deliver" is the exception, most of these urban students have no chance of ever passing an AP Calculus exam, not because they don't have the potential but because they'll never be properly prepared. The book, Savage Inequalities, is sadly accurate and matches what I've seen.</p>

<p>If we truly wanted to fix the problem, we'd reform our school funding system which relies primarily local property taxes. We need to start giving ALL of our children the educational opportunities they deserve. But the power elite have no interest in fixing the problem - they're kids are doing just fine.</p>

<p>Until then, there are going to be gaps in the SAT scores which show a strong correlation with family income.</p>

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<p>ok let's break this down. </p>

<p>education is done at school. not home. I go to a public school. everyone who goes to that school gets the same education as me, regardless of family income. I do not go to a "magnet" school, in fact my school had problems even getting california accredited this year. </p>

<p>so how is the SAT more biased towards me then them? especially when we have the same schooling.</p>

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<p>The ONLY reason women have lower SAT scores is because their mean math score is much lower. The mean critical reading scores are almost the same between the sexes, and women actually have higher writing scores. The only substantial, long-standing difference is the math.</p>

<p>Women have a lower level of performance in math in general (average), and also have a plethora of feminist-political issues within the math and science realms. So this disperancy between the genders’ SAT math scores has nothing to do with the SAT in particular. </p>

<p>Based on the data, I’ll say for certain that the SAT is definitely NOT gender biased, even if it is biased racially (which I highly doubt. That sounds like liberal propaganda). If the difference is the math and only the math, and we all know it’s not possible for mathematics to be biased, then it’s not biased.</p>

<p><a href=“http://research.collegeboard.org/content/sat-data-tables”>http://research.collegeboard.org/content/sat-data-tables&lt;/a&gt;
(You can see there is a big difference between the number of males and females who got perfect math scores (5000), and only a small difference between critical reading and writing).</p>

<p>And yes, I’m female. I never felt discriminated against whilst taking these standardized tests, so I was skeptical of this supposed “bias”. </p>

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<p>Thanks for giving a reply almost 10 years later</p>

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<p>@‌Princess563
Thanks for the data.
The US government uses the 4/5ths rule to determine if a test is discriminatory.
9,835 men and 4,842 women scored 800 in math.
Since 4842 is less than 7688 (9835x4/5) the SAT math test would be considered discriminatory. </p>

<p>P.S. The feminist-political issues are a consequence. Because the brains of men and women are wired differently, men naturally gravitate towards math and and a consequence society develops stereotypes.</p>