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Q. Dear Ms Sutton: In a recent Newsweek Article, the author talks about how boys are falling farther and farther behind girls in terms of standardized test scores and academic achievements. The author presents overwhelming statistical data in proving this point, but in my mind missed the mark in terms of the importance of the data. What I find most important is that given we have reached a time in our society in which men and women have generally equal access to quality education, we see that given an equal playing field girls will far out perform boys academically, which leads me to the conclusion that as a grand whole, the female gender is intellectually superior to the male.

Now having said that however, I believe it also important to note that there are many intelligent men in the world and many women who are not, but such individual examples do nothing to refute the overwhelming evidence found in this article and others which shows that women are generally more intelligent. To me the Articles' author's failure to mention this point was likely the result of not wanting to say something that would be considered politically incorrect in the current age of egalitarian utopianism that our society is still vainly trying to achieve.