First, a blog post you should all enjoy: Lonewolf Diaries: If You Think Men and Women Are Different You’re Sexist?
Now, my readers know I’m fascinated by evolutionary psychology. For a while I was following one blog about it, but in a few days it became clear that the blogger knows a lot of things that aren’t true. However, before I gave up on him, he did make one interesting remark in his post, Why men are more intelligent than women
He says:
The answer is: They aren’t.
The orthodoxy in intelligence research for the second half of the 20th century had been that men and women had the same average intelligence, but men had greater variance in their distribution than women. Most geniuses were men, and most imbeciles were men, they said, while most women were in the normal range.
This is of course true and well documented, but he goes on to deny it, without really supporting his claims. His conclusion, by the way, is that taller people are smarter than shorter people, and men are smarter because they’re taller! Never mind that a short man is biologically more similar to a tall man than to a woman of any height. And what is he to do with short geniuses such as myself, Ayn Rand, my father, my high school sweetheart, and many others?
What really interested me about this post, however, is an assertion he makes without referencing it:
Not wanting to discover, or a priori denying, any sex differences in intelligence, psychometricians simply deleted from the standardized IQ tests any item on which the performance of men and women differed.
He doesn’t say where he got this data. Does anyone know where I can verify it? In any case, if it is true, it could mean that the superiority of male intelligence is far greater than our current IQ tests show, because they were rigged to conceal it.
I do sympathize with feminists at times. My IQ is genius level, so it’s easy for me to admit that men in general are smarter than women; I’m still smarter than about 95% of the people on this planet. Normal women must find their natural inferiority quite painful in an era which devalues their natural worth as females.
