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brain sizes: Einstein's and women's

Tom Breton tehom at REMOVEpanNOSPAMix.com
Mon Jul 8 12:54:43 EST 2002


"John Knight" <johnknight at usa.com> writes:

> "Tom Breton" <tehom at REMOVEpanNOSPAMix.com> wrote in message
> 
> > 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?

I reported it exactly the way it was told to me.  I consider the
report credible, but I have no further information, sorry.

-- 
Tom Breton at panix.com, username tehom.  http://www.panix.com/~tehom



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