Also lovely to see that initial graph, almost a validation of Greater Male Variability hypothesis right there.

In a 1992 paper titled "Variability: A Pernicious Hypothesis", Stanford Professor Nel Noddings discussed the social history which she argued explains "the revulsion with which many feminists react to the variability hypothesis."[40]

In 2005, then Harvard President, Larry Summers, addressed the National Bureau of Economic Research Conference on the subject of gender diversity in the science and engineering professions, saying: "It does appear that on many, many different human attributes—height, weight, propensity for criminality, overall IQ, mathematical ability, scientific ability—there is relatively clear evidence that whatever the difference in means—which can be debated—there is a difference in the standard deviation, and variability of a male and a female population."[41][42] His remarks caused a backlash; Summers faced a no-confidence vote from the Harvard faculty, prompting his resignation as President.[43][44]

In 2017, a mathematics research paper by Theodore P. Hill and Sergei Tabachnikov, presenting a possible evolutionary explanation for the variability hypothesis, was peer-reviewed, accepted, and formally published in The New York Journal of Mathematics. Three days later, that article was removed and replaced by an unrelated article by different authors.[45] This caused debate within the scientific community and international publicity.[46][47][48] A revised version was subsequently peer reviewed again and published in the Journal of Interdisciplinary Mathematics.[49]