[skeeter]

I once heard an academic lecture regarding a thesis they had developed - actually it was more of simple observation - which suggested that males tend to be scattered all along whatever particular continuum you can name - whether intellectual (math skills for example) or social (criminal behavior, etc)- from one extreme to the other, while women tend to be grouped in the center more or less.

This results in more inept & stupid men than women, but also more brilliant and gifted men than women. Something in the way the two sexes are hardwired.

Made sense to me, anyway.

[M203M4]

One mechanism related to that is rooted in fairly solid science. Since most genes related to neurological functioning are located on the X chromosome, a mutation in one of these genes, whether “positive” or “negative”, will thus have a higher impact in males (who have only one x, guaranteeing the associated mutated phenotype) than in females (where the second, non-mutated copy will dampen the effect of the mutated one, to put it colloquially).

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

You succinctly expressed what I was trying to say in #16.

[SauronOfMordor]

I once heard an academic lecture regarding a thesis they had developed - actually it was more of simple observation - which suggested that males tend to be scattered all along whatever particular continuum you can name - whether intellectual (math skills for example) or social (criminal behavior, etc)- from one extreme to the other, while women tend to be grouped in the center more or less.

There also tend to be more men than women with the level of drive that makes them attempt insane levels of work, just to prove something to themselves

There are smart women. There are driven women. But the number of women with both qualities on the extreme right of the bell curve are very few