I believe I was in this thread before you. Have you read the entire thread?

first you go read the actual study - not just newspaper articles about it. The study found that while average scores are about even, there is a small difference in variance. This, in spite the obvious problems with the study, namely that they used State assessment tests that are not difficult enough to properly reveal any difference. If I gave every member of this forum a math test with questions like, "what's 2+2" then I would find that nearly everyone could score 100% and I could proudly claim no differences between the genders. The tests they used are the product of No Child Left Behind, which means every school teaches to this test - preparing students to pass this test. A real study would use sufficiently difficult questions so that the average score was somewhere in the middle.

Nonetheless, even with this flaw (and the bias of the researchers, which I'll get to later) the study found the variance difference. And there are other studies as well. The one I especially like is Hedges and Nowell, 1995. This is well-established scientific fact. People like you, who have a moral objection and an emotional investment likely squelch or bias other research.

Well first I wanted to provide a service to all the people that you will ever meet in your entire life. I wanted to bring to your attention the fact that it's not OK to revert to name-calling when you meet someone with whom you disagree. If you hadn't been so hardheaded about it, if you'd simply replied, "you're right, I should be a dispassionate advocate for the truth" then we could have moved on days ago, or else maybe I would've been content to go back to lurking - I honestly do not care all that much about this. It was your and Paracelsus' arrogance and air of moral superiority that brought on my comment. Even if you are right in your interpretation of the study, the people that disagree with you are NOT sexists.

Anyway, your primary counter argument is tautology. I'm content with the findings of the Hyde study, and the one that posted above.

I pose to you the same question that I posed to Paracelsus. Do you think there are any average cognitive differences at all between males and females?