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Women are just as smart as men, i don't think anyone can debate this. Are women just as interested in the same things men are? This is highly debatable. There are biological differences between men and women.

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> All or most of the major tests commonly used to measure intelligence have been constructed so that there are no overall score differences between males and females. Thus, there is little difference between the average IQ scores of men and women. Differences have been reported, however, in specific areas such as mathematics and verbal measures. Also, studies have found the variability of male scores is greater than that of female scores, resulting in more males than females in the top and bottom of the IQ distribution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_intelligenc...

Just saying "biological differences" is too handwave-y I think. I'm a programmer and not a scientist of any kind but I would guess we go against our biology in many, many ways in modern day-to-day life, and without better justification it feels a bit silly to run with this reasoning for a clearly complicated issue. If it were a truly unsolvable problem, then I assume we would never make any progress, but that's not the case.

I think there's an arguable point: Men are more likely to be stupid (defective chromosome and all that), and going into academia today is a really stupid choice.

It's stupid in the "high risk, but maybe high but questionable payoff" sense in the same way that wingsuiting is, and there's also a gender gap in wingsuiting too.

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