(12-19-2024, 10:37 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: The interesting question to me is, are the smartest men smarter than the smartest women, and are the dumbest men dumber than the dumbest women?  In other words, even though men and women could be, on average, equally talented mentally, do men occupy more of the extremes of the bell curve?

I've heard smart sounding people say yes they do, and that it's because we only have one x chromosome that either has very good traits or very bad ones.  When I was younger I would have found that credible but now I find it speculative.  

There are inherent differences in the toys most children are interested in at different ages, I never prevented my kids from playing with the "wrong" toys for their gender but after about age 3 they didn't really want to anyways.  

One difference I've seen in children is most boys have a strong competitive nature and most girls have a strong team building nature.  Neither of my kids are very competitive but as I've had them both in youth sports I definitely see that difference play out in their teammates.

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