Heather
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For my sociology assesment i have got to do i presentation on
Gender bias in education i have found tis site which i will post a link up to and could you all post your scores up for me stateing if youmale of female 
When you have completed it let me know if you think the test is bias toward males 
http://www.elevenplusexams.co.uk/pdf/11-plus-words-with-more-than-one-meaning.pdf
[Edited on 01-02-2006 by Heather]
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John
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What do you mean score?
Is anybody not going to get 10 out of 10?
Male and I don't think it is bias towards males.
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gianluigi
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10/10
male
non-bias. girls should know the answers to these as well as boys. they just happend to use men and masculine situations in their examples
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Heather
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Ok maybe this will make you do it do you know that tests are meant to be bias because women find it easyer to multitask therfore more girls can answer questions about sport and cars where as boys would miss out questions on flowers because
women are better than men !
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Heather
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and this is a bias test because the senteces contain 6 masculin words such as his, him ,he and boys and not one feminine
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Ally
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Carpenter, his, troops, he, his, man, carpenters, the man, the boys
Compared to ... Trixie
9 references to somthing which is stereotypically male/male etc
Apposed to one reference which is a female name
Deffo biased.
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Ian
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On a very superficial level there is bias towards males but I can see no credible reason why this should affect the outcome of the assessment.
I would be more worried why the word temple has been included as an opportunity to talk about Hindus and have a picture of a black guy.
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ssj_kakarot
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yes its gender bias, the questions are desinged to be easier to males than females.
but dont forget the 11+'s were around in the 1940's, which at the time women may not have known some of the answers, that they do today.
the test was desinged to be favourible towards men, as at the time society did not want woman to go into higher eucation, therefore leaning the test towards it being easier for men meant the majority of people who passed it and went onto grammar school were predomently male and middle class.
so yeah not gender bias today, due to equallity we share in society, but it was back then.
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Ian
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quote:
Originally posted by ssj_kakarot
easier to males
Disagree completely, the level of literacy must be identical.
The females might feel a bit badly done to, but the difficulty of the test is unaffected.
If you really want to test this, and you should rather than going on speculation alone, write a test in two parts with a bias towards each sex and run it with groups of people.
I personally couldn't care less whether the bricklayer is carrying a hod of 15 bricks or the hairdresser needs to work out the amount of shampoo left in a half empty 250ml bottle, they both pay tax at 22%.
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ssj_kakarot
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lol i was doing this earlier in my sociology A level class like leterally a few hours ago the exact same topic.
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