Sex and Gender Comparisons: Does Null Hypothesis Testing Create a False Dichotomy?

Feminism and Psychology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 63-81

  Favreau, Olga Eizner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

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EID: 0031537708     PISSN: 09593535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959353597071010     Document Type: Article

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