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So what.

• drallison 11y ago
  Intelligence is not gender related, although "intelligence" is hard to define and measure. Likewise, for authorship skills. Journal articles and citations are not, necessarily, the ideal measure for creative insight in science and mathematics. For male authors to be so dominate suggests that there are other, probably social, factors at play which limit the success of female computer scientists. My female scientist friends report that misogyny is a common character trait of their male colleagues. Your response might be taken as supporting evidence. In fact, sex differences in intelligence is controversial; Wikipedia has a nice summary of the various results, conclusions, and refutations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_intelligence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_intelligenc.... The complexity of measuring and testing intelligence is significant and many (most? all?) of the studies that have been done are of questionable validity. Many are meta studies that confuse correlation with causality. (For amusement: https://xkcd.com/552/. https://xkcd.com/552/.) Anecdotally, I have known many brilliant female scientists who have abandoned their field simply because of the behavior of male "colleagues" protecting their turf.