Well, I'm glad we cleared that up

Via the Bitch comes the news that men are, in fact, more intelligent than women. So says science. This from The Australian:

Men are more intelligent than women by about five IQ points on average, making them better suited for tasks of high complexity, according to the authors of a paper due to be published in the British Journal of Psychology.

Genetic differences in intelligence between the sexes helped explain why many more men than women won Nobel Prizes or became chess grandmasters, the study by Paul Irwing and Richard Lynn concludes.

They showed that men outnumbered women in increasing numbers as intelligence levels rose. There were twice as many with IQ scores of 125, typical for people with first-class degrees.

When scores rose to 155, associated with genius, there were 5.5 men for every woman.

Lucky thing I left academia, that's what I'm thinking. Those tasks of high complexity...they're just so hard!

I think my favorite part of the article is the lead-in: "HALF the population will dismiss this story--but..." The assumption being, of course, that all of the men reading this will agree with it. Yeah.

I guess I need to go over and apologize to the trolls on Eponymous' blog.