In the spirit of crude empiricism, I'll give it a go anyway and see what happens.
Poll: what probabilities do you assign to the following statements?
Men generally have a larger variance than women in most traits. [pollid:585]
Because of genetic differences between men & women, men generally have a larger variance than women in most traits. [pollid:586]
Men vary more in intelligence than women. [pollid:587]
Because of genetic differences between men & women, men vary more in intelligence than women. [pollid:588]
Men vary more in intelligence than women, and that contributes non-negligibly to gender imbalance in the sciences. [pollid:589]
Because of genetic differences between men & women, men vary more in intelligence than women, and that genetically-driven difference in variance contributes non-negligibly to gender imbalance in the sciences. [pollid:590]
"Too much Patriarchy bullshit in the data to tell".
There are very strong indicators that discrimination is going to hurt your career prospects in the sciences quite badly if you happen to be in possession of two X chromosomes. Number of widely cited papers needed in order to be awarded tenure, pay at a given level of qualifications, ect.. And even if you have not read those studies, the fact that this happens is blatantly obvious to anyone that is not both male and fairly oblivious.
This is quite sufficient to explain the disparity all on its own...
This is an experiment to use polls to tap into the crowd knowledge probably present on LW.
This is your chance to ask your multiple choice question you always wanted to throw in. Get qualified numeric feedback to your comments. Post fun polls.
There are some rules:
If you don't know how to make a poll in a comment look at the Poll Markup Help.
This being an experiment I do not announce it to be regular. If it is successful I may. Or you may. In that case I recommend the following to make this potentially more usable:
EDIT: Added recommendations from KnaveOfAllTrades.