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Testing of 103 women and 105 men for spatial intelligence (spatial vizualization, mental rotation, and visuospatial memory) found that women performed as well as men, but by self-assessment judged themselves to perform less well.

Summary: psypost.org/women-underestimat

Original paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1

PsyPost Psychology News · Women underestimate their spatial intelligence—even when they perform just as well as menBy Mane Kara-Yakoubian

Hot off the press - our report on gender disparities in grant seeking at the University of Cambridge (who applies for and who gets research grant funding).

bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/pub

The story:
1) The structural disparities are big (not so surprising)
2) The patterns of disparity at particular grades in particular disciplines go both ways (more surprising)

#ResearchPolicy
#ResearchGrants
#GenderDifferences
#Bayesian

If you like graphs, you'll probably like it!