The conclusion of a number-crunching exercise on various data sets is that male university students have significantly higher IQs than their female counterparts. But the methodology used is deeply flawed.
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Blinkhorn, S. A gender bender. Nature 438, 31–32 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/438031a
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