Friday, August 26, 2005
A Prepackaged Flamewar
Men are smarter than women (h/t gnxp)
[Based on the BBC writeup, I suspect that the researchers only studied the right hand side of the distribution and are indirectly restating the quasi-conventional wisdom that IQ means are similar, but the male distribution has a higher variance].
There's actually a flame war of sorts on the BBC site, and slashdot is well into it.
So to quote the human torch [who has become part of an repeatedly told inappropriate joke between my brother and I]: Flame On!
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[Based on the BBC writeup, I suspect that the researchers only studied the right hand side of the distribution and are indirectly restating the quasi-conventional wisdom that IQ means are similar, but the male distribution has a higher variance].
There's actually a flame war of sorts on the BBC site, and slashdot is well into it.
So to quote the human torch [who has become part of an repeatedly told inappropriate joke between my brother and I]: Flame On!
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