I’m no academic, but I think I am intelligent enough to understand that IQ is a very unreliable means of assessing intelligence, never mind when it is in the hands of a biased researcher (Publisher reviews national IQ research by British ‘race scientist’ Richard Lynn, 10 December).
Joan Lewis
Saint-Étienne-de-Gourgas, France
• Of four letters (10 December) on Mary Ann Sieghart’s piece prompted by the Gregg Wallace thing (Why do some men behave badly? I think I have the answer, 6 December), two say it’s women – specifically mothers or female bosses – who are to blame. Sheesh.
Julia Crouch
Brighton
• The scientists whose minds have been boggled by the power of Google’s Willow chip, about the size of an After Eight mint (Report, 9 December), would do well to heed Mr Creosote’s fate in Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life.
Peter Hayman
Glasgow
• Has Kemi Badenoch finally proved she’s one sandwich short of a picnic, in saying sandwiches are not real food (Report, 12 December).
Linda Karlsen
Whitstable, Kent
• After Liz Truss and the lettuce, can we hope that the shelf life of a sandwich might be longer than Kemi Badenoch’s leadership of the Conservative party?
Val Harding
London
• Is the person who draws the lines on the Sudoku puzzle on strike? They don’t appear to have been “working to rule” recently.
Joanna Blamires
Canterbury
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