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"If I decide people doing better at this specific test defines them as smarter, aren't they smarter?"
You have to subjectively decide what defines intelligence and then try to squeeze people and define them by those parameters. Self-fulfilling prophecy.
In the top tiers of intelligence, we should expect there to be at least 3 males for every female .
According to the comments following the above posted link, the accuracy of the study is open to interpretation. Just one example:
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For a simple example, click through to the Science article and you'll see that in White children, the M/F upper tail ratio is 2.0 -- meaning twice as many white boys >99% than girls. However, with an admittedly smaller Asian sample, the ratio is 1.0 (same numbers of boys & girls >99%). It's not impossible that this difference also has some genetic basis, but it's also entirely possible that some (White) families nurture their boys with math aptitude more than their girls.
Both genes and culture have big effects on outcomes. It's pretty stupid to ignore either of them.
And this gap is not cultural, so it cannot be erased through any program or policy devised by society. And if most IQ tests seem to focus mostly on visuo-spatial ability, such as this IQ test(and most others).
And if the highest performers on IQ tests are even more disproportionately male than would be indicated by the overall male/female IQ divide. And if having a high IQ, and possessing abilities in math and sciences have the highest value in our society, and should correlate with higher wages and success. Then, if all things are equal, shouldn't women basically be almost second-class human beings in our social structure?
So if it could be said that any equality between men and women can only exist through artificial means. Because men and women are inherently unequal. Then all talk of equality between men and women should be scoffed at as the ridiculous non-sense it is. And completely ignored as pure fantasy.
How does this make women feel?
These are the kinds of posts you whip up when you can't get a date again. Could their be a correlation? You decide.
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