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author: anonymous 9/26/2007 3:31:24 PM |
| The research – carried out by a man – concludes men's IQs are almost four points higher than women's.
British-born researcher John Philippe Rushton, who was once criticised for suggesting intelligence is influenced by race,
Other scientists are unmoved. Anthropologist Simon
Underdown, of Oxford Brookes University, said: "Statistics can prove almost anything."
And Dr Gill Samuels, Greenfield Report on women in science co-author, said: "Success depends on a number of factors, IQ is just one of them."
The research tallies with past findings that men at university were more likely than women to receive first-class degrees or thirds, while women tended to achieve seconds.
Seven years ago, however, a study of British universities indicated that women were achieving more first and upper seconds than men. Men, however continued to get more thirds. |
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