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- Jul 28, 2003
Doris, perhaps you're right on girls vs. boys after all - http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090601/sc_nm/us_math_girls_1
"Analysis of data from 15-year-old students participating in the 2003 Program for International Student Assessment likewise indicated that as many, if not more girls than boys scored above the 99th percentile in Iceland, Thailand, and the United Kingdom"
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"It's not that everywhere in the world there are fewer girls than boys in the top 1 percent,"
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The United States ranks 31 out of 128 nations on [the World Economic Forum's 2007 Gender Gap Index]
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