[megatherium]

Don't tell me anecdotal evidence about individuals. It is a fact of Nature that the outliers on the intelligence bell curve are overwhelmingly male.

It is not a fact of nature that the outliers are overwhelmingly male. Without ego I may say that as a holder of a mathematics PhD I am an outlier on the bell curve -- and so are all the other recent PhDs in math, 29% of whom are female.

And I don't buy the claim that male outliers are being suppressed: the number of Americans getting PhDs in math has fluctuated in the 400 - 600 range per year for decades, 70-75% male throughout.

[Nick Danger]

Q: How can you tell that a Math Ph.D. is female?

A: When you state that outliers are overwhelmingly male, she comes back with, "That's not true. I am one of almost 30% who are female."