It looks like the idea has been studied: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_intelligence#Mathematics_performance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Se

It looks like the idea has been studied: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_intelligence#Mathematics_performance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_intelligenc... In a 2008 study paid for by the National Science Foundation in the United States, researchers found that... while boys and girls performed similarly on average, boys were over-represented among the very best performers as well as among the very worst.