Larry Summers Lawrence Summers (former Secretary of the Treasury and former president of Harvard ) infamously claimed that women have a lower standard deviation IQ than men. He went on to suggest that this was a potential explanation as to why there are fewer women in top math and science positionsSuppose an IQ of 145 or higher is required to be a researcher at a top-notch research institution. Use the idea of standard deviation, the Empirical Rule, and the fact that the mean and standard deviation of humans is 100 and 15, respectively , to explain Summers ' argument .