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Fact: Boys are smarter than girls (link)

Posted by Manstuprator on 2024-April-11 12:03:43, Thursday

Well, it's a bit more nuanced than that.

Recently someone linked to an article about a woman claiming that her physical limitations (as a female) prevents her from excelling (or something to that effect).

But she cited a book chapter purportedly claiming that (paraphrasing) "women have IQs equal to men".

Well, I looked up the book (annas archive):

Russell T. Warne - In the Know _ Debunking 35 Myths about Human Intelligence-Cambridge University Press (2020)
... and the chapter:
Chapter 27: Males and Females Have the Same Distribution of IQ Scores
... to find some interesting "facts" about men's intelligence relative to female's intelligence.

(I put "facts" in scare quotes because some here insist that there exist "facts" which cannot be disputed, apparently unaware of the scientific method which seeks to discover good evidence which tends to support assertions, not that prove "facts".)

Anyway, the chapter cited is interesting, but dense.

The crux of the debate is the difference in the distribution of standard deviations between men's scores and women's score. So there are more smart men than smart women (but, as many of us know, women have better conversational skills so they often can browbeat the [smarter] men into submission.)

Keep in mind the qualifier "on average". Every rule has exceptions (actually, that is a false statement. Almost all absolute statements are false. The evidence is there...)

M.
Maybe one reason I like boys, and can relate with them better than girls, is because boys are smarter? And more "logical"?

https://annas-archive.org/search?q=Russell+T.+Warne+-+In+the+Know


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