Paper: Men and Women Are From Earth: Examining the Latent Structure of Gender
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Men and women are from Earth Examining the latent structure of gender. Understanding Dimensions and Taxa One reason why the underlying nature of gender differences has been difficult to address is that although biological sex is clearly a categorical variable, the variables commonly of interest to re- searchers and laypersons alike tend to be dimensional (e.g., mas- culinity, femininity, school achievement, depression, aggression), varying along a continuum. The statement that men are more aggressive than women, for example, implicitly assumes that there is one group of people who are high in aggression (men) and another group of people who are low in aggression (women). This assumption treats an observed mean difference between men and women as a special kind of category called a taxon. Examples of taxa include animal species (gophers vs. chipmunks), certain phys- ical illnesses (e.g., one either has meningitis or not), and biological sex.
Paper: Men and Women Are From Earth: Examining the Latent Structure of Gender
Paper: Men and Women Are From Earth…
Paper: Men and Women Are From Earth: Examining the Latent Structure of Gender
Men and women are from Earth Examining the latent structure of gender. Understanding Dimensions and Taxa One reason why the underlying nature of gender differences has been difficult to address is that although biological sex is clearly a categorical variable, the variables commonly of interest to re- searchers and laypersons alike tend to be dimensional (e.g., mas- culinity, femininity, school achievement, depression, aggression), varying along a continuum. The statement that men are more aggressive than women, for example, implicitly assumes that there is one group of people who are high in aggression (men) and another group of people who are low in aggression (women). This assumption treats an observed mean difference between men and women as a special kind of category called a taxon. Examples of taxa include animal species (gophers vs. chipmunks), certain phys- ical illnesses (e.g., one either has meningitis or not), and biological sex.