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From: tims@mako.UUCP (Tim Stoehr)
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Subject: Re: RE: Sex Differences - Math
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Date: Wed, 23-May-84 13:04:43 EDT
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 >   My own feeling is that in math and most other areas, males are not
 > necessarily better, but rather more variable, ie. more at the high
 > end of the scale and also more at the low. (In this article it was
 > reported that the boys' scores had a larger variance than the girls'.)
 > This idea apparently has been studied somewhat, but I haven't yet
 > seen any writings about it; I'd like to see some discussion here.

I agree, although I have little scientific knowledge to base it on.  It
seems that male babies go through a somewhat more radical development
(I don't know what that consists of) resulting in more male geniuses as
well as more mental retardation and still births than females.