If you were to compare the personality traits of all females with the personality traits of all males, you would expect to find more variation ____.

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Research has shown that there is much more variation within each gender in terms of personality traits than there is between genders. Studies have found that while there are some gender differences in personality traits that are statistically significant, the overlap in the distributions of traits between genders is substantial, with many individuals of one gender having traits that are similar to the other gender. Therefore, it is expected that there will be more variation within each gender than between the two genders.

If You Were to Compare the Personality Traits of All