You clearly haven't read read the whole article, so this will be my final response, if you wish to further research into it, simply look at school data along with university data in terms of grades et cetera, specifically towards the top quartile, so the top 1 percent, the top 0.5 percent and especially the top 0.01 percent.
But I quote from the story in question:
"Up to the top 1%, boys and girls are nearly equal. But the higher into the tail you get, the bigger the differences emerge—and the boys dominate. In the 1980s, there were 13.5 boys for every girl in the top 0.01%, now there are only 3.8. The decline shows a large share of the gap was social conditioning, whether because of girls being told they could not be great at math or not being encouraged to take hard math classes. But a significant gap remains—some of if representing that we have further to go and some of it raising more uncomfortable questions about differences in innate ability."
If you also research into conditions like autism, and the relationship between autism and genius, along with those who have severe learning difficulties to the point that they never evolve beyond the age of 10, you'll find more information that links to the men being 4 times more likely in each of those areas, which is where a lot of the idea comes from. There seems to be a correlation but it could be something that we are seeing that we don't yet understand.
Also, no doubt you will have noted in the piece that the graph for mathematics SAT results also shows that it is been remaining stable at 4 times men at the 0.01 quartile, data typically across the board typically shows similar results for grades on subjects like maths and those related to genius et cetera. All recent. Just research into school data.
Though this is not supposed to be a competition, and like I say, genius is rare. I suspect there's not been much anger because it's just an interesting tidbit, and it is a well-documented one.
For 99.9 percent of men and women, so the non-geniuses, there is no difference, no evidence of a difference, and in fact women might have a slight edge on a per person basis. Perhaps in time more female geniuses will emerge. This post merely shows what the current data shows, that there are more men in that top 0.01 genius spectrum. The current idea is that there is a possibility it is linked to genetics somehow.
Even if this was found to be correct, as long as the females who are geniuses – of which there are many – got the opportunity to embrace their genius, I fail to see why it would matter if there were more male geniuses? After all, we all just as important as each other anyway!
Anyhow, thanks again for reading! And sorry to hear you seem to have been upset by this, that was not the intention.
