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"groups with higher average intelligence are obviously going to win more Physics Nobels." You mean men right? I'm sure there's no bias in that process...
by alex_young 11y ago
"groups with higher average intelligence are obviously going to win more Physics Nobels."
You mean men right? I'm sure there's no bias in that process...
- cb18 11y agoMen, Jews The Men thing is interesting. Men and women have either the same average intelligence, or just slightly different. But the reason that you have a preponderance of men with very high intellect is because men's intelligence is distributed on a normal distribution('bell curve')[0] that is broader than the distribution for women. So you end up with more men than women occupying the very high and low edges of the intelligence distribution. More male geniuses, but also more male dunces. Yeah, and you're right, not much bias in the process. Results of this type tend to speak for themselves.[1] [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Physics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Phy...