GRE Math Scores & Percent Female by Field

 Low GRE math scores in fields dominated by women.  

Diversity in STEM: Merit or Discrimination via Inaccurate Stereotype?

• March 2024
• OpenPsych

• March 2024

DOI:10.26775/OP.2024.03.05

Authors:

Joseph Bronski

Emil O. W. Kirkegaard

• Ulster Institute for Social Research

In 2002, Templer & Tomeo correlated the percent of males in a field with that field’s mean GRE score and found r = 0.76, a very strong correlation among those typically found in social science (Templer & Tomeo, 2002). As of writing, this finding has been largely ignored, only having been cited 10 times according to Google Scholar.

Templer, D. I., & Tomeo, M. E. (2002). Mean graduate record examination (gre) score and gender distribution as function of academic discipline. Personality and Individual Differences, 32(1), 175–179.