Myths of the Fairer Sex

Writing somewhat solipsistically in the Washington Post, authoress Charlotte Allen pens an article addressing some of the differences in intelligence between men and women. I agree that men and women have different strengths, and that men are drawn from a wider distribution (more high school dropouts; more Nobel prizewinners), though I would not conclude as Allen does that women are 'dim'. She does, however, present some strong evidence for her case. In a single paragraph, she brilliantly proves that women are both bad drivers and weak in mathematics:

Depressing as it is, several of the supposed misogynist myths about female inferiority have been proven true. Women really are worse drivers than men, for example. A study published in 1998 by the Johns Hopkins schools of medicine and public health revealed that women clocked 5.7 auto accidents per million miles driven, in contrast to men's 5.1, even though men drive about 74 percent more miles a year than women.

Inimitable.