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From: Maurice Winn2/12/2011 1:30:09 PM
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Women running world class top companies. Even with purely intellectual activities, women are not able to be the top-notch total all-around winner. Take chess for example. The probability of having a winning woman is low.

There are two main reasons:

1....They are not poisoned by testosterone as much as men, who are suicidally competitive. Demented and driven to compete to be the alpha male. By definition, women are not the alpha males. Nature has seen to it that men are driven to compete like maniacs. Even if only 1 out of 100 survives, that's enough to maintain the burgeoning population.

In case some of them think they'll just hang out and smell the roses, like Ferdinand the Bull silvertongue7.tripod.com nature gives men a good dose of testosterone to stir them up.

2....To succeed in Darwinian competition, men need more development time as boys to absorb the lessons of life, so nature keeps them as boys three years longer than for girls who will predominantly have children and hide in the cave while the men go out and fight tigers and other men with sharp sticks and clubs [dangerous occupations requiring much skill].

The point of the extra three years - you can't teach an old dog new tricks.

So, with testosterone and an extra 3 years of brain development, the very best males probabilistically have serious advantages over women of equal genetic endowment.

It's true it's politically incorrect, but true anyway. <A male-female mean difference in g of 0.162 SD exists in favor of men, equivalent to 2.43 IQ points. The female g distribution is narrower than the male, with a variance ratio (F/M) of 0.916 > lagriffedulion.f2s.com

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