Address to the American Psychological Association on Men (2007)
Fundamentally, though, the problem with articles like this is that even if he's right, there are very few situations where knowledge of a difference in distribution are that useful, and very very many where it is misused to justify existing (and unjustifiable) bias.If you knew that men were on average 5 IQ points lower than women (which is not what he says, and probably not true, but whatever), it wouldn't be very useful information for actually making choices. Male student underperforming in class? That's 'cuz men are dumber. Emerging gender-skew in medical school students towards women? That's 'cuz men are dumber. Etc etc.