re: Men vs. Women: Chess

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IIRC men and women have essentially the same average IQ but women's is more clustered around the mean, while men have more outliers at both ends of the distribution curve. More geniuses = more chess grandmasters.

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I remember a Camille Paglia quote that said something like, “there will never be a female Mozart for the same reason there will never be a female Jack the Ripper.” Reasoning I guess being that men produce more extremes.