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RE: Are boys better in Physics - my own little research
I don't necessarily buy that, "Men are better in math." This suggests that the distribution of men's math abilities and women's have mean values that are different. I might be wrong, but I don't see evidence for this. My anecdotal experience is that the "average" male and female having very similar difficulties with mathematics. If there is a different, it is within the noise.
I do think that there is evidence for the "Greater Male Variability Hypothesis," which tells us that the distribution of traits in men is greater than in women, therefore there are more men in the tail of the distribution. Hence there are more boys that win math competitions, as you pointed out.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variability_hypothesis)
Exactly what we observe in school kids:
For "normal physics" boys and girls are equal, because the Mean of the distribution is equal and the spread is not to wide.
Once we compare high level physics - boys are becoming to dominate.
They will also dominate in crime :D