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From another thread which now appears to be closed:
The actual scientific studies which have been done show men to be smarter, with an IQ of about 5 points higher:"Any college teacher (at least in the social sciences and life sciences) who has ever paid attention to their own stats know that women do better than men in college classes.
There are all kinds of post hoc explanations given for this like "Girls get better grades because professors are men, nod nod wink wink" and so on. What a load of crap. Women are smarter than men on average, among the smartest people there is no emperical evidence that women are underrepresented, and among the dumbest people in the world .... well, those are mostly guys.
The reasons are obvious and straight forward. The hormones that give some men an evolutionary advantage over some other men also make you stoopid. Any questions? Ask a girl, she'll explain it to you.
And now, finally (or shall I say, "once again") there's proof:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/ar...hard-Lynn.html
at the near-genius level (an IQ of 145), brilliant men outnumber brilliant women by 8 to one. That's statistics, not sexism.
The undeniable, easily measurable fact remains that, by the time both sexes reach 21, men, on average, score five IQ points higher than women.
So why the differential? I think it is a combination of:
Explosion in size of humanities & similar degrees (non math/science).
Lower-to-middle class men don't go to college as much, since they tend toward jobs in construction, truck driving, and military which do not need any education. Lower-to-middle class women in tend towards jobs such as secretary, clerical, teaching, etc usually need at least an associate's degree from a community college.
Continued resistance to standardized testing, and instead reliance on grades in K-12 (which are subjective and vary widely) as well as bullshit essays and such.
In the K-12 environment, I'd say in addition to more emphasis on humanities type subjects, there is the focus on conformity and following rules, which tends towards girls instead of boys. Also, the grades can often be subjective, and teachers' opinions of girls are usually higher due to nicer personalities and less likelihood to create classroom disruptions.
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