Participation rates and gender differences in intellectual domains
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Why are (the best) women so good at chess? Participation rates and gender differences in intellectual domains Merim Bilalić*, Kieran Smallbone, Peter McLeod and Fernand Gobet Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3UD, UK Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester M1 7DN, UK Centre for Cognition and Neuroimaging, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH, UK Published online 23 December 2008
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