The Harvard Arts & Sciences faculty better get on the BBC’s case for this piece of gender heresy:
New Scientist reports that although men are more likely to be mentally retarded, they are also more likely to be geniuses.
Although the average IQ of men and women is equal, men are more frequently found at both extremes of intelligence.
This is because, if you have very good intelligence genes on your X chromosome, it pays not to have them muffled by more average genes on another X chromosome.
The gist of the story is that women have more genes than men because the X chromosome is bigger and more varied than the Y. But the two X’s that women have tend to average each other out, hence the higher and narrower female bell curve.
But this isn’t known to most Nigerian dictators, and hence not known to the Harvard faculty.