And, as it turns out, contemporary investigations of variability – both in the general population and in the most intellectually blessed pockets – have been showing that ‘inevitable’ and ‘immutable’ are adjectives that need not apply when it comes to describing greater male variability in mental ability. One cross-cultural study, published several years before the Summers debacle, compared sex differences in variability in verbal, maths and spatial abilities to see if the greater male variability in the United States was invariably seen in other countries. It was not. In each cognitive domain,
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What, the US *isn't* representative of humanity after all?
