Re: Intelligence on the X chromosome
John Varela (jav@os2bbs.com)
19 Aug 1996 02:48:31 GMT
In <4v7if7$20p6@argo.unm.edu>, mycol1@unm.edu (Bryant) writes:
>In article <3216811A.5AFB@sonic.net>,
>catherine yronwode <yronwode@sonic.net> wrote:
>
>>Actually, the multiplicity of these genes and the presence of all of
>>them on the X chromosome was hypothesized by the researchers to account
>>for the fact that women's intelligences tend to cluster around a
>>bell-curve average but men have a split-pattern distribution of
>>intelligence, including more retarded and more genius level minds than
>>women.
>
>I'm not aware of any study which suggests that IQ is bimodally
>distributed in men.
I don't think it's bimodal. Rather, men have a larger standard deviation of
intelligence. I recall this being taught in introductory psychology 40 years
ago.
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