I'm unaware of any standardized-ish MATH tests that don't cut off (fail to meaningfully test) the left X% of population...where X is larger than we like to believe. Every math test has signif selection effects.
But that doesn't even matter. Because what's INTERESTING re: math and verbal and musical and cooking and military intelligence w/r/t natural-born gender...isn't whether the MEANs or MEDIANs or MODEs differ by a couple points between the hormonal sexes. So what I take you to be REALLY polling about is the fact that men dominate near the visible top of essentially ALL fields (and, the more g-loaded or obsessive, the more dominant). (Nobody cares to compare the biggest losers at the bottom -- who are mostly men -- and mostly homeless, imprisoned or dead.) This interesting hegemony is explained ~entirely by the sexes' different standard deviations and skews in intelligences + the big personality dimensions. Which, in turn, is "CLEARLY" ;) nature playing at XY/XX asymmetric reproductive game theory...which you can practically prove from your armchair and then can confirm via various observations!
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Date: 2009-08-03 11:38 pm (UTC)"CLEARLY"?!
I'm unaware of any standardized-ish MATH tests that don't cut off (fail to meaningfully test) the left X% of population...where X is larger than we like to believe. Every math test has signif selection effects.
But that doesn't even matter. Because what's INTERESTING re: math and verbal and musical and cooking and military intelligence w/r/t natural-born gender...isn't whether the MEANs or MEDIANs or MODEs differ by a couple points between the hormonal sexes. So what I take you to be REALLY polling about is the fact that men dominate near the visible top of essentially ALL fields (and, the more g-loaded or obsessive, the more dominant). (Nobody cares to compare the biggest losers at the bottom -- who are mostly men -- and mostly homeless, imprisoned or dead.) This interesting hegemony is explained ~entirely by the sexes' different standard deviations and skews in intelligences + the big personality dimensions. Which, in turn, is "CLEARLY" ;) nature playing at XY/XX asymmetric reproductive game theory...which you can practically prove from your armchair and then can confirm via various observations!