{"id":337,"date":"2005-05-26T23:27:38","date_gmt":"2005-05-26T17:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/2005\/05\/26\/girls-outshine-boys\/"},"modified":"2005-05-26T23:27:38","modified_gmt":"2005-05-26T17:57:38","slug":"girls-outshine-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200505\/girls-outshine-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Girls outshine boys&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since we have been talking of gender differences, here is some more. Every year we see headlines like <a href=\"http:\/\/in.rediff.com\/news\/2005\/may\/26cbse.htm\">&#8220;Girls outshine boys&#8221;<\/a> in CBSE\/ICSE\/State board results. The basis for the headline is that the <i>pass percentage<\/i> is better among girls than among boys. Can you tell me the real reason for the gap? <\/p>\n<p>Hint: It involves discrimination <i>against<\/i> girls. Also, ignore the gap mentioned for CBSE results in the linked article. That is most probably not statistically significant. Usually the gap in state board exams is much higher &#8211; and that is another hint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since we have been talking of gender differences, here is some more. Every year we see headlines like &#8220;Girls outshine boys&#8221; in CBSE\/ICSE\/State board results. The basis for the headline is that the pass percentage is better among girls than among boys. Can you tell me the real reason for the gap? Hint: It involves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}