self concept is important is important because it is how you see yourself. Makes you happier.
In other words, men are not only smarter after puberty kicks in, but the gap widens the further up the IQ scale you go. The higher someoneâs IQ, the more likely they are to be a man. Although there is relative parity between men and women around the average IQ of 100, at IQs of 130-150 the male to female ratio is already 2.5:1.
Several meta-studies by Richard Lynn between 1994 and 2005 found mean IQ of men exceeding that of women by a range of 3â5 points. Lynn's findings were debated in a series of articles for Nature. Jackson and Rushton found males aged 17â18 years had average of 3.63 IQ points in excess of their female equivalents.