ABSTRACT
The author believes that the intellectual capacity of women is on the whole inferior to that of men. His belief is that, if one takes any degree of intellectual capacity which is above the average for the human race as a whole. And then a possessor of that degree of intellectual capacity is a good deal more likely to be a man than a woman. Men could be credited with a thousand times the intellectual capacity of women; and vice versa; and so on. Probabilities are a sort of graduated capacities, and the question about the comparative intellectual capacity of men and women is, like the question whether a certain coin is fair, a question about probabilities. Human intellectual capacity is a coin which has been tossed, not a million times, but very many billions of times. Even some equality-theorists show signs of inclining to some such biological explanation of the facts.
