Thursday, June 7, 2012

His Normal Distribution Curve is different from hers

Is there anything good about men?
R. Baumeister, Eppes Eminent Professor of Psychology & Head of Social Psychology Area, Florida State University

the greater variablity theory holds that women and men are equally intelligent on average, but male intelligence has greater variability than female intelligence (see graph above), and therefore there are more male geniuses AND male idiots. To be sucessful at MIT in engineering and science, you have to be in the extreme right-hand tail of the distribution for intelligence, i.e. 3-4 standard deviations above average; and in the range of 3-4 standard deviations above the mean, women are underrepresented and men are overrepresented. 

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