My Econ class has a higher female grade average (A-) than male average (B). Is this due to sexism?

Generally speaking, women tend to be more diligent than men. They are more likely to finish the assignments on time and follow the instruction properly on the assignment. So other things being equal, women tend to get higher average grades in college courses.

Yes, go home now.

This.

I've been teaching for 26 years

Sample size is too small. If sample gave you different results, would you have reported your summary?

That stated, economics is not s.t.e.m. and at about 1/3 of universities, economics is not in business school, economics is on the edge of s.t.e.m.

As a brother to a sister, son, father to daughters, uncle to a niece and grandfather to a granddaughter, females who choose a s.t.e.m. major, due well. Males often start off with a s.t.e.m. major because many males believe men should have a s.t.e.m. major. As stated, econ is on the edge of s.t.e.m.

And before you accuse me of double standards vis a vis my thoughts on race

Yes, there are societal factors that cause boys to underperform academically and I don't believe it's genetic at all. After all, there was a time when boys were expected to outperform girls academically, and they did.

Selection bias probably plays a part: econ is male-dominated, so the women who do take those classes likely have higher-than-average interest in the topic and ability to do the work.

Same concept as "men under six feet tall are better NBA players on average than men over six feet tall"— very short men only make the NBA if they're exceptionally talented, so the few who do will be better on average than the general NBA pop

Yet another thread proving that there's nothing more delicate than the conservative male ego.

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This rule must not be applicable to law school, unless I just went to a bad one (which is entirely possible).

Economics isn’t as subjective as a lot of subjects (English, History, etc.). In this case, I think the girls are just working harder than the guys.

This is a donkey sh!t troll thread. Right wingers should be ashamed for letting the standard of trolling drop so far

Yes. Because of those societal factors, men need to study harder to get the same grades as women. And you guys wonder why there are so many M2F trans people these days.

You are thinking about six to ten econ courses. Economics is just as subjective overall as English and history. Look at Thomas Sowell. On his path toward PhD, economics, he built his econometric models to argue against Milton Friedman. Since Sowell saw socialist wave which was growing in Mexico, amongst the students and Central and South America wasn't going to take over U.S., Sowell switched sides.

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FIFY.

That’s “liberal logic” to nearly the same extent that QAnon is “conservative logic.”

Lots of morans out there of all stripes.

I imagine that a few frat boys and rojo/wejo types would crater the male grade average.

By the disparate impact theory, it is

You said it's anonymously graded. How on Earth could that be sexist??