Are you sure that all internal traits needed for "winning" (what ever that means for you) have identical distribution across every possible divide of the societ

Are you sure that all internal traits needed for "winning" (what ever that means for you) have identical distribution across every possible divide of the society (by sex, race, social class, etc)? Consider this: "The differences in average IQ between men and women are small in magnitude and inconsistent in direction, although the variability of male scores has been found to be greater than that of females, resulting in more males than females in the top and bottom of the IQ distribution." (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_intelligence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_intelligence) We don't have any stats about the most failed business ideas - but I bet that males would also be overrepresented there - and this is because males are crazy risk takers. As to the other part "And is it coincidence that the 38% group has controlled power, wealth, and privelege for hundreds of years, and still does in most other situations (governnment, non-tech business, etc.)?" - I believe that this might be a tautology in a capitalistic system - those that 'win the business race' are those that also gain power in this kind of society. And I don't really mean that there is no discrimination - this is only to show that "why would 38% of a population[1] produce 90%[2] of the winners" can have answers other than discrimination. I do think there is discrimination and we should fight it, I even believe that even if there was no discrimination then still we would be better off if we had more diversity in many places - so it might make sense to do the 'reverse' discrimination (but you'd need to be very careful with that). I only want to say that to do anything positive you need to start with a good understanding of the mechanisms at play.