To ask how on earth there could be a 'pocket money gender gap'?

[LittleLionMansMummy]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36440161

I mean, how?! Am I being naive? Why are parents apparently treating their children so differently in this respect? What's going on? Poor girls have no hope of smashing the glass ceiling when their own parents are short changing them practically from birth. Interested in hearing your views!

Whatever you do, don't read the comments. Misogyny is alive and well.

My Dd and ds get different amounts. Dd gets more.

She is 12 and ds is 5. She does things like go to the cinema with her friends etc. Ds doesn't go anywhere on his own.

So if you looked at our family, ter would be a difference. But it's not based on gender, it's based on age and activities.

Their after school club costs me more for Dd than ds. Because Dd is older she trains 3 times a week. Ds trains once as she competes and at his age he is just doing it for fun. So again if the question was 'How much do you send on after school clubs?' It would look like we spend more.

As ds gets older if he is still interested in it, he will go 3 times a week as well.

Sorry what I am saying is there could be many reasons.

Ds will get the same as Dd as and when he needs it or it appropriate.

I bet opposite sex twins get the same pocket money as virtually nobody believes that they themselves are sexist, it's pretty much all subconscious/internalised. Having same sex twins would "force" the parents to treat them equally as giving them different amounts would not fit with the parents' self image.

Ihavenopigs I am assuming the SD is 3. I was using sigma as the error on the mean, which is what you get by dividing the SD by the square root of the number of data points (in this case around 600 for each of boys and girls).
So sigma is 0.12. This means the boys average and the girls average are around 6 sigma apart...so very definitely different and highly HIGHLY unlikely to be different due to a statistical fluke.

I guess the question branofthemist is that does DS get more (allowing for inflation) than DD did when she was 5?

Ice being
Oh I get it. You're using std dev as the std dev of an individual measurement but sigma as the std dev of the mean of the sample.
Thanks