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0 pointsdoorstar5y ago0 comments

> women experimentally have a narrower IQ distribution

A glance at Wikipedia shows that this statement is contested. Pretty much every statement about men, women, intelligence, and IQ is contested.

> This is also the expected result if you're familiar with GMV

OK, I'll bite.

https://bsd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13293-019-02...

"few sex differences (if any) remain statistically significant"

It amuses me that any article about racism and sexism in the tech inevitably devolves to "It's not racism and sexism if we just think that other races and sexes don't perform well in the tech industry."

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centimeter5y ago

> Pretty much every statement about men, women, intelligence, and IQ is contested.

Well obviously, but most of the contests against hard IQ data don’t have much merit.

> <link to paper about gray matter volume>

GMV isn’t “gray matter volume”, it’s “greater male variability” - hence the mention of sex chromosome pseudodominance.

> in the tech industry.

It’s not just the tech industry - every industry will have some selective pressures.

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