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Statistical Sins in Male-Female Intelligence Differences

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For the love of god, always look at the actual data

You have maybe seen this graph or something like it before, or heard something like “There are a lot more really dumb and really smart men than really dumb and really smart women.” This graph is a statistical sin, one of the easiest to recognize. Nothing is labeled, we don’t know what distribution this is about, there just isn’t much solid at all. No numbers yet, not even a particular domain mentioned. Yet it’s about a topic that’s deep, important, sensitive, and broad. This figure comes up when talking about intelligence, and in particular, gendered differences in intelligence. The SAT is…

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