This Businessweek article documents the rise of women in educational attainment. Why is this happening? I think it is the fact that there are more men at the bottom end of the IQ bell curve while the minimum intellectual capacity demanded for collegiate studies has been downshifting toward the fat middle of the distribution (around the mean) where females outnumber males. A clue to what is going on is that the article notes that more lower income women than men take standardized tests-just as high IQ men pair with lower IQ women (though still very intelligent of course 😉 the lowest IQ men normally get together with somewhat higher IQ women. These women are now going into higher education, leaving their dull partners behind them….
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