Skeeve comments on [SEQ RERUN] Of Gender and Rationality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Skeeve 06 May 2013 04:49:32PM 2 points [-]

Men are the majority at the high end of the IQ / social success spectrum, and also the low end.

I'd be interested in reading citations on this, if you have any handy.

Comment author: [deleted] 07 May 2013 12:02:46AM *  11 points [-]

Citations suggesting men are over-represented at the low end of the IQ / social success spectrum.

Prison Population (2010) http://bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/p10.pdf Male 1,445,628 Female 104,629

Homeless (2011) http://homeless.samhsa.gov/ResourceFiles/hrc_factsheet.pdf 62% were male 38% were female

Mental retardation higher among males than females (2006) http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5501a1.htm

IQ test scores of males consistently have larger variance than of females (1995) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7604277

Boys are over-represented at the low and high extremes of cognitive ability http://web.archive.org/web/20120211085904/http://www.psych.umn.edu/courses/spring06/mcguem/psy8935/readings/deary2003.pdf

Counter-claims and only-partially confirming claims can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_human_psychology

Comment author: Skeeve 07 May 2013 01:58:14PM 2 points [-]

Awesome, thanks. I've got a lot of reading to do.

Comment author: [deleted] 10 May 2013 04:44:21AM 5 points [-]

You should also give this blog post a read:

http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/06/01/gender-gap-in-maths-driven-by-social-factors-not-biological/

It summarizes recent research suggesting that the gap between boys and girls in math performance is largely cultural. This isn't about IQ, but is closely related.

Comment author: gwern 06 May 2013 04:56:32PM 4 points [-]

You'll want to search for things like 'male variance' or look at Baumeister's Is There Anything Good About Men?.

Comment author: Skeeve 06 May 2013 05:02:55PM 1 point [-]

Thanks, that seems like a good place to start looking.

Comment author: gwern 06 May 2013 05:05:55PM 5 points [-]

Incidentally, if you question the claims about numbers of males successfully reproducing vs female, we've already tracked down the citations and jailbroken them in http://lesswrong.com/lw/h4e/differential_reproduction_for_men_and_women/

Comment author: Skeeve 06 May 2013 05:08:27PM 3 points [-]

Not so much that I question the claims, more that I'd like to know more in-depth about the subject.