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Women have lower IQs than men?

Academics in the U.K. profess to have confirmed what male chauvinists have long claimed: Men are smarter than women. According to a study conducted by Professor Richard Lynn and Dr. Paul Irwing, men not only have larger brains than women, but IQs that are, on average, five points higher. The two men, who analyzed the results of more than 20,000 reasoning tests taken by university students around the world, say their study helps explain why many more men than women have won Nobel Prizes or become chess grandmasters. Said Lynn, "Men have larger brains than women by about 10 percent and larger brains confer greater brain power, so men must necessarily be on average more intelligent than women." Lynn, it should be noted, is a serial offender when it comes to controversy. In 1996, he claimed professional and middle classes are superior to the underclass in terms of intelligence and moral character. And in 1991, he asserted white people are cleverer than black people.

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