| Abstract: | It has been suggested that females who score extremely high on the mathematical portions of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) do so because they have very high verbal skills, whereas some males score extremely high on the mathematical portion despite their relatively low verbal skills. This hypothesis was investigated with data from two SAT administrations by comparing the conditional distributions of SAT-Verbal (SAT-V), given SAT-Mathematical (SAT-M), for males and females. Evidence for and against the hypothesis was observed. As implied by the hypothesis, the males had lower conditional SAT-V mean scores. However, in contradiction to the hypothesis, the males did not have greater conditional variances of SAT-V given SAT-M. |
