Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 09:18:56 04/19/98
Hi all: This is an old issue and has some relations with the infamous idea and highly non political one that women are intellectually inferior. Infamous and non political, yes, but that is not enough to stop some thinking on it. I remember a book that I read very fast in the store, but unfortunately I did not buy it -I am a happy married man, not jokes with this kind of explosive stuff in my library- and where the argument was the following: A) In the average section of IQ curve, men and women are equal. I would say equally stupid, if you don't mind. B) Nevertheless, the shape of the gauss curve is different: men curve is flatter, with a higher number of cases in the extremes; that of women highly concentrate in the middle. C) The result of that fact, said the book, was that you can find few men with really high intelligence, but even fewer women.To probe that the book produced the following statistics: 1) In the IQ 120 range, you get 6 men for each women that got that high level; 2 In the IQ 140 dizzy region, you get 12 men for each woman that reach that very high peak on intelligence; 3. In the stratosferic and almost inhuman IQ 170 or more level, you find 25 men for each woman there. And so and so. Conclusion of the book: women, as gendre, is not made out for hight intellectual effort, even less than men. After all, only a fraction of men are IQ 120 or more, about 6%. And above 140 IQ the number decreases eve more, 1%. And so and so. If all this is truth, the you have part of an explanation of why you does not meet women in CCC or in chess in general. Not that to play chess means we are genuses, but at least involves some excedent of mental power that is scarce in men and even more in women. I now I will post this with the hope my wife never get into this club... Fernando
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