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Subject: Re: RE: Sex Differences - Math
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Date: Mon, 21-May-84 00:17:46 EDT
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> Also, a higher variance implies that if I wish to hire top mathematicians,
> they will all be men.

Depends on your definition of "top".  Unless the threshhold for "top" were set
very high, the variance for women might be enough to put a significant number
of women over the top, so to speak.  (For that matter, if, for instance, males
received a greater tendency towards flakiness along with a greater variance, the
initial pool of eligible male top mathematicians might be greater, but more
of them might be passed over for spending their lunch hour poisoning the
pigeons in the park or somesuch.)

	Guy Harris
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