"Tom Breton" <tehom at REMOVEpanNOSPAMix.com> wrote in message
> Now, be fair. You know there are severe political and ideological
> pressures against publishing anything like that. Scientists like
> Suzanne Steinmetz have received death threats against themselves and
> their children simply for publishing results that went against
> Feminist interests. At the very least, anyone who published about
> anti-male bias in IQ tests could look forward to great difficulty ever
> getting another research grant. Anyone who reviewed it favorably
> would be taking a political chance too. So you can't just assume that
> such information would make its way into peer-reviewed journals.
>> But the *information* is out there. Credit to Leonardo
> <Leonardo_member at newsguy.com> in <9miftl0239r at drn.newsguy.com> for the
> following:
>> > When Wechsler was developing his IQ test, he found
> > that out of 105 tests assessing skills in solving
> > maze-puzzles, involving the most heterogeneous
> > populations throughout the world, 99 showed an
> > incontrovertible male superiority. (Wechsler resolved
> > this type of problem by eliminating all those tests
> > that resulted in findings of significant sex
> > differences.)
>>
Is this true? Is this how the IQs of men and women were "equalized"--by
throwing out 94% of the test?
No wonder the IQ tests don't correlate with things like GRE scores, which DO
correlate with brain size http://christianparty.net/grebrainsize.htm
John Knight
