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Outliers don't make the rule.  According to certain studies[b], men on average have one standard deviation higher spatial intelligence quotient than women[/b][i].  This domain is one of the few where clear sex differences in cognition appear (likewise the brain structure associated with this type of intelligence, the parietal lobe, differs between male and female brains). However, in some studies, once time constraints were removed, women did as well as men. It has also been found that spatial ability correlates with verbal ability in women but not in men, suggesting that women may use different strategies for spatial visualization tasks than men do.  Spatial intelligence is often a requirement to make it through engineering courses, as one needs to flip the orientation of objects in ones head to visualize designs, and understand a summation of forces at moment in basic engineering classes like engineering statics.

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And even this difference is attributed, at least in part, to socialization and exposure.  As toddlers, boys are more likely to get toys that encourage spatial intelligence (blocks, legos, puzzles) than girls are.  It starts from the very beginning.  [/quote]

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