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Gender differences in reasoning ability measured by letter series items

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Letter series and number series tests, consisting of items based on identical rules, were administered in a counterbalanced design to 320 (160 female and 160 male) undergraduates in order to investigate the gender differences in inductive reasoning ability measured by letter and number series tests. Results indicated that female college students obtained significantly higher (p<.05) means on letter series tests, but showed no such superiority on number series.

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  1. Dept. of Psychology, Marquette University, 517 North 14th St., 53233, Milwaukee, WI

    M. Y. Quereshi & Rainer Seitz

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Quereshi, M.Y., Seitz, R. Gender differences in reasoning ability measured by letter series items. Current Psychology 12, 268–272 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02686808

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