More on Male/female IQ

On August 27th. and 28th. I posted on this blog (See here) a few comments about differences in male and female intelligence. The posts were in reponse to a recent paper on the subject in the British Journal of Psychology by Profs. Irwing and Lynn.

I think I should therefore mention that there has recently come out a new book by Charles Murray, The Inequality Taboo, which also deals with the subject. You can access a big review and discussion of it here from last Saturday's edition of a major Australian newspaper.

I don't really see why it should be so incorrect to say that men are better at some mental tasks and women are better at others but saying so really seems to generate an uproar.

It's been known to psychometricians for around a century that women tend to have better verbal skills and men tend to have better mathematical skills but evidence does not seem to be what is at issue here.