This is a couple years old but I'm actually quite surprised this was posted in a mainstream publication given how politically incorrect it is. It gives a breakdown on how intelligence differs between men and women and destroys the myth of the glass ceiling. At the genius level, men are 8x as numerous as women. Even though men and women have similar IQs at the middle of their respective bell curves, men have a much wider curve than women so you will have far more brilliant men than brilliant women and far more retarded men than retarded women. When you think about it, male behavior tends to be more extreme overall than women. More heroism and innovation amongst men and more psychopaths, terrorists and criminals as well. Women are just kind of lukewarm and average in their intelligence and temperament, not that extreme in either direction. Perhaps this evolved because extreme traits in women were not conducive to their biological tendency of nurture.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/articl...-Lynn.html
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^^^ This does make you wonder how women are managing to graduate from college at higher rates? Either they are getting preferential treatment, are simply taking easier courses or men have just stop giving a shit about studying. Maybe some combination of all?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/articl...-Lynn.html
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For not only is the average man more intelligent than the average woman but also a clear and rather startling imbalance emerges between the sexes at the high levels of intelligence that the most demanding jobs require.
For instance, at the near-genius level (an IQ of 145), brilliant men outnumber brilliant women by 8 to one. That's statistics, not sexism.
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, in almost 110 years of Nobel Prize history, only two women have ever won the Prize for physics, only four have won the Prize for chemistry and why no women at all have ever won the coveted Fields Medal for mathematics in eight decades of trying.
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The undeniable, easily measurable fact remains that, by the time both sexes reach 21, men, on average, score five IQ points higher than women.
^^^ This does make you wonder how women are managing to graduate from college at higher rates? Either they are getting preferential treatment, are simply taking easier courses or men have just stop giving a shit about studying. Maybe some combination of all?
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In 2005, the distinguished economist Lawrence Summers was forced to resign as President of Harvard University after expressing the view, at a seminar on diversity in the academic workplace, that in some fields the innate cognitive differences between the sexes might make the search for a perfect 50:50 gender balance impossible.
He didn't accept that the lack of women at senior level was all due to glass ceilings, anti-social hours or lack of opportunity and encouragement.
Instead, he went with what the science is clearly telling us - that at the really top level in maths and science, when we're not dealing with average intelligence but near genius, there are simply more men around who can do the job.
For that simple statement of truth, he was eventually forced out of his post.I take some comfort from the fact that Lawrence Summers' hormonally-driven male competitive instincts kicked in and he has now bounced back to become a senior economic adviser to President Obama.
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My argument isn't based on crude chauvinist doctrine (although I'm quite sure my opponents will disagree) but on decades of research, relatively simple statistics and an understanding of the law of averages.
Of course, just because men, on average, are more intelligent then women, doesn't mean there are no individually brilliant women around.
If I'm right, it doesn't mean there will be no female professors of physics; it just means we should accept that there will be fewer of them. Nor does it mean that a woman will never win the Fields Medal for mathematics; it just means that we live in a world where such an event is very, very unlikely.
I realise my views are unfashionable, just as I realise the juggernaut of sexual equality and political correctness will take an awful lot of stopping.
But I say to the social engineers who dream up ever-more-ingenious ways of getting more women into top positions; don't be surprised if you find your nobly motivated ambitions foundering on the immovable rock of human nature.