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Originally posted by Firestormalpha:
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Originally posted by Thoran:
Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics : Statistically speaking, men have a wider bell curve when it comes to intelligence... the top 10% and bottom 10% of the intellectual range are almost exclusively male. Women tend to cluster near the middle.
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Thoran, which gender do you think wrote those tests? Male or female. And yes it would make a difference. [/QUOTE]Actually in this case it wouldn't... if you had a simple skew in the results I'd agree that a testing bias could be the cause, but in this case you see one gender dominating BOTH ends of the scale, with the medians for both genders very close. While a straight testing bias is very easy to construct, constructing a test to achieve this result would be difficult if not impossible. Additionally these results are can be empirically corroberated, by looking at real life occurances of genius and mental retardation, because both of these clubs are dominated by men.
[ 09-23-2003, 02:28 PM: Message edited by: Thoran ]