Quote Originally Posted by boost View Post
JKDS and Wuf, just reading through the thread you two seem to be being intentionally obtuse at times. Like the "Legos haven't been around long enough for us to evolve" line should be looked back at as a red flag for you JKDS. A ton of evidence has been posted that points towards gender roles being influenced by hormones, yet your only response is "nothing is proven, and it either is cultural or hormonal, so 50/50" along with "here's an anecdote."

I'm not saying you're wrong, but your position as you support it is weak.
the stuff ive said is first semester statistics material.

i agree mostly with the idea that the best gamers come from the population of males for innate reasons. my issue arises when using data and statistics to say something they don't. for example, even if god almighty were to descend from his heavenly throne and bestow upon his children the knowledge that he indeed made women less good at gaming than men, the statistics we have to date could not be rightly used to draw that conclusion.

it's probably true, at least in some ways it's probably true, but extrapolation is bad business. even something as compelling as the larger standard deviations in male iq's is rife with confounding variables. we'd have to find a population of women that were raised exactly the same way as men and then test their iq's to see if the trend holds. and here's the thing, even if it still remained plausible that men have larger standard deviations in iq's, the trend would likely not be the same, as there would be some not-totally-predictable alteration in outcomes.

that said i think it is probably still true that there are more male intellect outliers than female ones. the funny thing is probably none of us are outliers