Women, Success, and Statistics

For people who want more information on women in science, specifically the theory that there are more very smart men than very smart women, aquaeri, an evolutionary geneticist, has been writing a series of posts tackling it in detail under her hightail tag. Of course, if you click on the tag, you'll get them in backwards order.

Posts she has made so far:

• introduction
  
• genetic differences between men and women
  
• male and female intelligence in chimps
  
• about socialization (mostly that she isn't an expert and doesn't feel competent to comment on it.)
  
• side comment on a specific talk I didn't read and another digression
  
• why she disagrees with the implicit assumption of a normal distribution for intelligence

Posts she still plans to write:

• Development of male and female brains (in humans)
  
• Some basics about evolution
  
• Something about what the genes for science ability could possibly be
  
• Something about human evolution
  
• Something about sexual selection
  
• Something about the possibility of sexual selection in humans

Probably more, too.

Since aquaeri has promised several more entries, you might as well friend her if you are interested in seeing them - a lot of the rest of her posts are about Australian flora and fauna, as described by a curious biologist, and who doesn't need that on their friends list? :) Her posts are definitely more science-heavy than the article linked to above, but followable by a patient layperson. She explains well, and if you have questions, she'd love to answer!

Science!

Ah, you got there before me.

The more I learn, the less I believe the 'innate genetical differences' theory.

*makes a note of these most useful-looking articles*