How Stereotype Threat keeps women from working in SW — and how we can fight it

Re:How Stereotype Threat keeps women from working in SW — an... by jmduke on Wednesday August 01, 2012 @11:41AM (#4323491)

Statistically, men have a wider variance in IQ score than women do. This means that there are likely to be more highly intelligent men than highly intelligent women in a room, and that the most intelligent man in the room is probably more intelligent than the most intelligent woman.

No. This means that there are likely to be more men who scored highly on an IQ test than women who scored highly on an IQ test in a room.

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Re:How Stereotype Threat keeps women from working in SW — an... by debacle on Wednesday August 01, 2012 @11:56AM (#4323604)

I still would call that relevant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#Job_perfo...

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Re:How Stereotype Threat keeps women from working in SW — an... by pwny on Wednesday August 01, 2012 @11:55AM (#4323592)

"The only thing an IQ test is good at is measuring how close the test taker is to thinking the same way the test maker does."

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