hmmm.

[sillysmile]

http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vce/statistics/2009/section3/vce_psychology_ga09.pdf
looking at these statistics intrigued me,
why do females tend to achieve higher marks in psychology?

[vexx]

In general: females are more organised, better at paying attention, and able to work better than males - and so it gives them a greater advantage with these skills to be able to take time to write notes, organise them well (some girls i know are ridiculous with their organisation its actually painful) and then memorise it.
for some, having well organised notes, that are full of different colours and neater can make it easier to memorise, not only is writing it going to take longer, so the information is in mind for longer but the colours/fonting can give different cues and such for easier recall.

remember this is just the generalised norm that occurs, and in no way truly representative of everyone..
(though it is definitely true for my experiences... ha)

[masonnnn]

Also, odd fact; a friend who is doing a psychology course at the mo' (2nd year) has uh, noticed that he is one they veryyyy few males in the course now.
i always thought psychology would be relatively even gender wise, not sure why the skew.

[flametree]

9% of females scored A+ on this year's mid year and 8% of males did, i wouldn't say there's a hugeee difference

[iNerd]

Thought it might be interesting to note that the new 3/4 [ 2011 - 2014 study design ] Psychology book is purple in colour.
...an indication for a feminine subject?

Think it's being published Mid-November.

[sillysmile]

Thought it might be interesting to note that the new 3/4 [ 2011 - 2014 study design ] Psychology book is purple in colour.
...an indication for a feminine subject?

Think it's being published Mid-November.

hahaha

[jinny1]

becuz females are cheaterss

[Visionz]

Its the same for most things. Women are better represented in the top 10%. Men though are better represented than women in the top 1% though.



oh and this:

becuz females are cheaterss

[sillysmile]

Its the same for most things. Women are better represented in the top 10%. Men though are better represented than women in the top 1% though.



oh and this:

becuz females are cheaterss

in biology males seem to achieve higher.

[Glockmeister]

Also, odd fact; a friend who is doing a psychology course at the mo' (2nd year) has uh, noticed that he is one they veryyyy few males in the course now.
i always thought psychology would be relatively even gender wise, not sure why the skew.

There's a massive drop in numbers between first year, second year, third year and then honours. IRRC, at Monash, Psychology starts off with 1,200 enrolments at first year, drops to about 800 enrolments by second year and by the time you get to honours, there's only 80 people.

In terms of the differences, I generally can't be arsed plugging the numbers into statistical software, but just visually the differences might just be due to chance, or some other variable at the least, not just females are better than males in Psychology.

[Gloamglozer]

Also, odd fact; a friend who is doing a psychology course at the mo' (2nd year) has uh, noticed that he is one they veryyyy few males in the course now.
i always thought psychology would be relatively even gender wise, not sure why the skew.

There's a massive drop in numbers between first year, second year, third year and then honours. IRRC, at Monash, Psychology starts off with 1,200 enrolments at first year, drops to about 800 enrolments by second year and by the time you get to honours, there's only 80 people.

In terms of the differences, I generally can't be arsed plugging the numbers into statistical software, but just visually the differences might just be due to chance, or some other variable at the least, not just females are better than males in Psychology.

Same at UoM.  In first year, gender-wise, it's relatively even.

[sillysmile]

Also, odd fact; a friend who is doing a psychology course at the mo' (2nd year) has uh, noticed that he is one they veryyyy few males in the course now.
i always thought psychology would be relatively even gender wise, not sure why the skew.

There's a massive drop in numbers between first year, second year, third year and then honours. IRRC, at Monash, Psychology starts off with 1,200 enrolments at first year, drops to about 800 enrolments by second year and by the time you get to honours, there's only 80 people.

In terms of the differences, I generally can't be arsed plugging the numbers into statistical software, but just visually the differences might just be due to chance, or some other variable at the least, not just females are better than males in Psychology.

Same at UoM.  In first year, gender-wise, it's relatively even.

oh okay, well I'm going to be doing psychology next year..
Now I'm quite interested to see how many people drop out.

[meadr05]

Dunno if this helps, but the ratio of females to males in units 3-4 Psych is 4:1. Maybe it's just because of sheer numbers?

[Visionz]

My class is 75% guys.

I might be doing psych next year. I think most people drop out or change when theyre told itll take 6-7 years to be qualified rather than 3.

[masonnnn]

my class is 100% guys.
... though it is an all guy school.

and you'd think people would know that beforehand... i mean there's not many/(any?) university degrees that'll leave you qualified for a really good job after 3 years...