Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 14:55:41 04/19/98
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On April 19, 1998 at 12:18:56, Fernando Villegas wrote: >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 And what makes you believe it takes such a high IQ to be a programmer, a chess player or a chess computer freak? Does all this take a higher IQ than being excellent instrumentalists in classical music, novelists, poets, scientists, politicians, etc etc etc as many women are? I don't know why there are so few women in the cc world, but I do know it can not be because of anything related to IQ or to intelligence. Maybe they are less competitive, less inclined to develop a passion for machines and to focus all energies on a narrow field. But this would prove higher intelligence, not lower. Enrique
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