1/4. Building off my previous posts on MIT and Caltech, here are the data for Georgia Tech. In recent years, Georgia Tech has begun to admit a greater percentage of its female applicants than it has its male applicants, resulting in a female:male admissions preference ratio that now stands at about 1.6. 2/4. Georgia Tech receives about 2-2.5 times as many applications from potential male than female students.

🧵NEW: Our latest paper is a meta-analysis of sex differences in upper- and lower-limb strength in kids aged 5-17 years old (3,497 boys; 3,137 girls).

Before, during, and after puberty, boys are stronger than girls on average. The sex difference in muscle strength is ~10% in 5–10-year-olds and increases to ∼40% in 14–17-year-olds. Throughout development, the sex difference in strength tends to be more pronounced in upper- than lower-limb muscles.

Co-author: @MatheusdPinto 2/5. All 299 effect sizes in the analysis. Positive effect sizes to the right of the dashed vertical zero line represent when the group of boys was stronger than the group of girls. Negative effect sizes to the left of the dashed vertical zero line represent when the groups of girls were stronger than the group of boys.