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An item on an IQ test is suspected of being biased against women. Which of the following would be the strongest evidence of such bias?


A) Correlation between performance on this item and performance on the test as a whole is as high for women as it is for men.
B) The item was written by a committee of men who did not ask women for their advice.
C) Women with low IQ scores are just as likely as women with high IQ scores to answer the item correctly.
D) Less than 50% of women (and less than 50% of men) answer the item correctly.

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