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Comment author: nshepperd 02 November 2013 07:06:31AM *  2 points [-]

But what if you take that to its logical conclusions concerning the male/female ratio of the top 0.1% smartest people, and then tell other people your calculated ratio?

You might be able to inoculate yourself against that by also calculating and quoting the conjugate male/female ratio of the lowest 0.1% of the population. Which is really something you should be doing anyway any time you look at a highest or lowest X% of anything, lest people take your information as advice to build smaller schools, or move to the country to prevent cancer.

Comment author: [deleted] 03 November 2013 09:04:29AM 1 point [-]

Using that figures, 0.117% of males and 0.083% of females have IQs below 58.814, so if the sex ratio in whatever-you're-thinking-of is much greater than 1.4 males per female, something else is going on.