I had a Palestinian friend named Vartan who was a foreign exchange student in the U.S. Not too long after 9/11, he was "randomly searched" 3 times on a single flight. It's obvious that they do profiling, because most people would rather have the 22 year old male Palestianian searched than the 70 year old white grandmother.
From the statistical evidence I've seen so far (and my mother is a gifted education teacher, so I've seen a lot), men and women have the same average IQ. The problem is that men have a higher variation in their IQ levels. What this means is that there are a lot more really stupid guys that really stupid girls, and there are a lot more really smart guys than really smart girls. (I'm not counting mentally disabled people here). On average, it evens out... but it means that the smartest person you know is more likely to be male than female, and the bumbest person you know is more likely to be male than female.
On a place like a college campus (or in industry), when you only have the brighter people to begin with, the average IQ of males will be higher than that of females, because all the really stupid people aren't there... and as mentioned before, most of the really stupid people are guys.
Of course, females still get higher average GPAs than males, and more of them will attend college than males (in the USA), but no one thinks this means girls are smarter...
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I had a Palestinian friend named Vartan who was a foreign exchange student in the U.S. Not too long after 9/11, he was "randomly searched" 3 times on a single flight. It's obvious that they do profiling, because most people would rather have the 22 year old male Palestianian searched than the 70 year old white grandmother.
From the statistical evidence I've seen so far (and my mother is a gifted education teacher, so I've seen a lot), men and women have the same average IQ. The problem is that men have a higher variation in their IQ levels. What this means is that there are a lot more really stupid guys that really stupid girls, and there are a lot more really smart guys than really smart girls. (I'm not counting mentally disabled people here). On average, it evens out... but it means that the smartest person you know is more likely to be male than female, and the bumbest person you know is more likely to be male than female. On a place like a college campus (or in industry), when you only have the brighter people to begin with, the average IQ of males will be higher than that of females, because all the really stupid people aren't there... and as mentioned before, most of the really stupid people are guys. Of course, females still get higher average GPAs than males, and more of them will attend college than males (in the USA), but no one thinks this means girls are smarter...