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If women had genius IQs what would they do with that potential? But there's not a lot of motivation for nature to grant woman with great intelligence when she only needs to fend off danger from her young, and leave all the heavy lifting to the man.

At least that's my theory as to why testosterone + IQ is the formula for STEM genius. A woman could have high test and this testosterone-induced STEM type genius, but she would also reach a point of looking too masculine for her own good. Perhaps this is why they say when it comes to heritability of IQ, the woman's IQ is not as significant as the man's IQ in relation to the potential IQ of their offspring. She carries the potential for genius in her genes, but for a female it's not that necessary to have abstract supercomputer levels of problem-solving skills when you're oriented toward more pragmatic needs as opposed to sitting in a dark corner pondering astronomical, borderline schizophrenic things.

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