Noted: Some scientists and advocates for gender equity have argued that the remaining gender gap in extreme scores is rapidly shrinking and will disappear. It was called â??largely an artifact of changeable sociocultural factorsâ? last year by two researchers at the University of Wisconsin, Janet S. Hyde and Janet E. Mertz. They noted evidence of the gap narrowing and concluded, â??Thus, there is every reason to believe that it will continue to narrow in the future.â?