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"She entered a branch of science where 90 percent of the professors are male, and has emerged as one of the world’s leading particle physics thinkers.
It hasn’t gone unnoticed that Randall continues to achieve at a time when Harvard President Larry Summers has been under fire for remarks he made earlier this year suggesting that innate differences in ability between men and women in math and science may help explain the lack of top-level females in the profession."

Larry Summers was the prophet who could not go back to his own hometown. Aside from Lisa Randall's obvious brilliance, that in and of itself does not invalidate Summers' assertions.
I don't think that the AVERAGE male is smarter than the AVERAGE female is: I am convinced that the average for both is probably identical. Where I think the difference lies is in the distribution of intelligence in the sexes.
That is, there are more learning disabled boys in special ed than there are girls. Just as I think that there are more genius-quality males than females. So I think the two sexes are equal on the average, but different "on the two ends of the bell curve".

My understanding is that males and females average the same in highly G loaded tests, but female scores cluster closer to the mean, while males account for most of the extremes at both ends of the bell curve. It makes sense, nature can afford to "roll the dice" with expendable males. There are more reproductive resources vested in females so you don't take as many chances. That's why war has never been an effective population control, kill half the males and those left work overtime to "meet production quotas." Surviving low ranking males move up when reproductive resources previously unavailable to them become available. (war widows) If it is a total defeat, the winners carry off the females and put them to work implementing the genes of the winning population. Larry Summers is a ex-Clinton rump-swab who stuck his foot in his mouth, it couldn't happen to a nicer guy! You don't say stuff like that at Harvard if you want to keep your job, even if it is true. Did you notice how quickly he folded? What did he give them, more money for the women's center?