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I'm gonna go a head and trot out the standard questions that should be asked to make sense of any of these sorts of 'X are more A than Y' studies:

1. How big are the differences in consistency between groups (e.g. males and females, rich and poor)?2. How much unexplained variation is there within the groups?

The gender difference literature is generally renowned for making 'X are more A than Y' statements when the within group variation swamps the between group variation.

Guess I should go read the paper.

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"than people whose choices are restricted by poverty, gender, and/or incompetence."

I thought I would lend a hand.

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