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by anologwintermut
4105 days ago
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It might be true, but how usefulness is it when dealing with society as a whole?. For the Puttman, it probably kicks in, but for a whole field like e.g. programing/computer science/IT, it almost certainly doesn't for the simple reason that the field isn't composed of anywhere near the top 0.001 percent of the population in terms of IQ. |
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If programming requires significantly higher IQ than average, then if male and female IQ variance are disparate then males and females will be differently represented in the programming field.
It's not really an issue of 'kicking in'; in any normally-distributed function, differences in variance are always relevant, and can rapidly be more important than the mean the further one gets from the 50th percentile.