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>>8626605

male skulls tend to be slightly larger than female skulls, on average

do you mean that, why doesn't this manifest in an observable IQ gap? because cranium size isn't the only thing that goes into IQ

what you do observe between men and women is that men have a higher standard deviation; meaning you find more men at the top and bottom of the bell curve than in women

women are, on average, more average

there are more men in prison, more men who are millionaires

there are more men suffering from mental health issues, more men in (elite) sciences

there are more men who are homeless, more men who sleep with a thousand of the other sex

it seems probable (though unproven) that the y chromosome is responsible for greater variation in men's outcomes; women have two x chromosomes, which could imply redundancy: more likely to not be stupid, but less likely to be a genius

this what you're getting at?

Philosophy is an intellectually demanding discipline. It's not a conspiracy there are fewer women in philosophy, it's just biology.

>>7332899
Yeah, there's more male retards, largely because males are more subject to head injuries and untreated diseases, but there's also more males with actual passable intelligence and genius. It's funny how that works.

>>6521984
I looked further into this graph and its sources.

Both sources are 100% legit and respected - though statisticbrain.com looks sketchy, the page is referencing a study by Educational Testing Services, a well respected organization (google them). The other source is government. Given this background on the sources we can assume that they are reliable and that the sample size was good.

In terms of methodology, the gov study is unimportant while the IQ study uses a conversion between SAT score and IQ, which was MENSA approved until 1995 and remains quite valid still (SAT and IQ data was taken from 2011-2012). This is how they obtained the IQ scores; this is fairly unbiased.

Now for some analysis: This study DOES NOT SHOW that men are smarter than women. It does, however, demonstrate the different distributions of intelligence between men and women.

Pic related shows the different distributions of IQ between men and women. The sexes have nearly exactly the same average IQ, but women are more centrally concentrated. This is concerning the general population. When we look at college graduates, we are naturally looking at a subset of the population that is much more intelligent than average. Note that because of the higher variance of IQs among males, at the high end of the IQ spectrum (as well as the low end), there are more males than females.

Therefore, when we select for, say, the top 20% of the population, we will see that males are more intelligent on average. College graduates form a higher intelligence subset of the population, which explains this graph's result: male college graduates have higher IQs than female college graduates.

This is also affected by female vs. male major choices. Females tend to choose majors that require more SQ than IQ, most notably social work; men tend to choose more quantitative studies such as physics that favor high IQ. IQ is not an all-purpose measurement of intelligence. It measures quantitative skill, reasoning, and problem solving skill. SQ is just as valid as a measure of intelligence, but not accounted for on this chart.

TL;DR men are not smarter than women, graph demonstrates differences in IQ distribution and male preference for IQ-requiring majors.