The content of the SAT-Verbal varies over time due to policy-driven manipulations. For this reason, using SAT-Verbal scores to study historical patterns in cognitive sex differences is not recommended. For such a purpose one is better served by the chronometric tests developed within the framework of cognitive psychology
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