OK able. So you are in the 2% who are really good at solving the sort of problems that the sort of people who think being good at solving that sort of problems think makes them intelligent. So'm I. But I don't think that it does.

It isn't the number of brain cells, anyway. It's the number of connections between them, and that depends on how they are used. I don't know, off hand, how much work has been done on this, but seem to recall that women have more connections between the hemisphers than most men. Most men have not been involved in inventing anything. A number of women have, on record. Probably more off record, because they make little adjustments around their functions in the home.

I'd like to know just which women have been involved in sending soldiers off to Iraq. Toni Blair? Georgina Bush? Donna Rumsfeld? Can't do anything with Dick Cheney.

And your evidence for the swing of the pendulum past centre? Mind you, it was so far over the male side that it would be hard to get it centred and then just stop.

Penny