ANDY WARHOL: THE FREAKISHLY BRILLIANT PHILOSOPHER AND....FORMER DUMB STUDENT

In fact, males and females appear equally intelligent, on average. But on standardized intelligence tests, more males than females get off-the-chart test scores—in both directions. The greater variance of males on intelligence tests is one of the best-established findings in psychometric literature. More males are mentally deficient, and more are freakishly brilliant. The difference in variation isn't huge, but it is large enough and consistent enough that a fair selection process should produce more boys than girls in a gifted and talented program.

-Christian Hoff Sommers
The American
July 1 2010