Study says men are smarter than women

Hey, why beat around the bush and just focus on math and science? Turns out men are just smarter, period.

A study to be published later this year in the British Journal of Psychology says that men are on average five points ahead on IQ tests.
Paul Irwing and Professor Richard Lynn claim the difference grows when the highest IQ levels are considered.
…Dr Irwing, a senior lecturer in organisational psychology at Manchester University, told the Today programme on BBC Radio Four that up until the age of 14, the study showed there was no difference between the IQs of boys and girls.
“But beyond that age and into adulthood there is a difference of five points, which is small but it can have important implications,” he said.

Excuse me if I don’t take this very seriously. When I used to teach SAT classes for The Princeton Review, the biggest lesson was to make sure kids knew that the only thing the SAT measured was how well you took the SAT. I’d say I feel the same way about IQ tests. You can’t define intelligence by a test. Especially when factors like sex, class and race discrimination aren’t taken into account.
But the study’s authors believe that their research shows why men outnumber women in “achieving distinctions of various kinds, such as chess grandmasters, Fields medallists for mathematics, Nobel prize-winners and the like.” Of course. Here I thought that systemic sexism and discrimination were to blame for the disparity. Turns out, women are just big dummies.