Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 11:26:43 04/19/98
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On April 19, 1998 at 12:18:56, Fernando Villegas wrote: >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: If you are going to post incredibly controversial conclusions like this, please at least post a citation. It is very hard to argue (or agree) with this point, since I don't know who said it, how they figured it out, who funded the research, or anything else about this. Anyone who wants to argue points in relation to this has to try to argue with an anonymous party who is not present, or accept these points as fact and go from there (which is a lot easier). There was a tremendous controversy a few years ago when someone tried to relate IQ with race. I have to believe that if someone had tried to relate IQ with gender, there would have been a *tremendous* controversy. I did not hear of such a controversy. So I think that something is wrong with this data. That is the best argument I can make, absent any information about the study other than its conclusions. In any case, I am uncomfortable with this kind of thread. If it is OK to have this kind of thread here, then it is OK to have a similar thread about why there are so many German chess programmers, and so few Gypsies, Slavs, Africans, etc. Perhaps it is possible to show studies that show different propensities in different groups, but the conclusions, and policies made because of these conclusions, always go way beyond the data. Nobody is going to organize a campaign to exterminate women, but because of stuff like this, the individual woman may be denied an opportunity to compete for a job that she is qualified to do, and that is bad enough. bruce
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