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Is There a Gender-Equality Paradox in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math? 339 mean propensity in the sense of tendency, inclination, or predisposition, consistent with their hypothesis that men and women have different baseline preferences for STEM study (eg, Lippa, Collaer, & Peters, 2010; Pinker, 2008; Schmitt, 2015), which can be “exaggerate [d]” and “abated or overridden”(Stoet & Geary, 2018, p. 591) depending on the context. But individual predispositions should be measured by a psychometrically sound scale of individuals’ perceived (or actual) gender inequality in relation to their STEM preferences. Both the UNESCO tertiary-degree statistics and GGGI are inappropriate for these purposes because they tell us nothing about individual STEM preferences or individual experiences of gender inequality. Setting this aside, a propensity variable is conceptually discordant with the GGGI. The GGGI …