Male brain "clocks higher" then female brain

[Urban Ranger]

This study doesn't mean anything. For starters, it's published in some journal named Intelligence, not Nature, Science, Lancet or a host of other more well known ones. Secondly, the researchers only measured the activation of the visual cortex. Finally, the brain works asynchronously and in parallel, so this measurement probably doesn't mean anything.

[Kuciwalker]

Interesting of you to think that the fact that men spend thousands of hours to learn complex games and their strategy which have no true positive impact on their RL proves that they're somehow smarter than others...

Yes.

[RGBVideo]

Perhaps I should've added "bother to" between "men" and "spend". In case you didn't get it: my point was that you could also easily argue that guys who spend huge amounts of their time on becoming 'the best' in playing games (like say, poker variants, chess, civ2) are the ultimate morons since they waste their precious lifetime in a completely useless activity.

[Kuciwalker]

And it would be a stupid argument.

[Combat Ingrid]

VJ:

UR: Debate the data, not the journal who published it
What the data showed was that the signals were transmitted slightly faster in male brains. The authors concluded that is was probably due to a thicker myelin sheath around the nerve axons. As the study didn't try to correlate the transmission velocity with intelligence, the data obviously didn't prove anything about that. However, I'm sure someone is already investigating it

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Combat Ingrid
What the data showed was that the signals were transmitted slightly faster in male brains. The authors concluded that is was probably due to a thicker myelin sheath around the nerve axons.

That might have something to do with the fact that men were hunters for a significant amount of time in the prehistorical period.

Originally posted by Combat Ingrid
As the study didn't try to correlate the transmission velocity with intelligence, the data obviously didn't prove anything about that. However, I'm sure someone is already investigating it

We don't even have a clear definition of intelligence

[Combat Ingrid]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
We don't even have a clear definition of intelligence

Wasting thousands of hours becoming a great Civ player must surely count as superior intelligence

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Combat Ingrid
Wasting thousands of hours becoming a great Civ player must surely count as superior intelligence

I only play it for fun and have never bothered to figure out various optimal ways to do things

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by Lorizael
Let me just say that I don't care if men and women are equal or not. All that matters is if they are able to do the things that need to be done.

Some things that need to be done, need to be done by women.

[St Leo]

Can scientific studies be modded -1: Flamebait? Or, for that matter, can press releases be modded that?

The averages are very close. Since the spread follows the normal distribution for both genders, the overlap is enormous. In fact, it's quite probable that the fastest thinker in the world is female despite this.

[monolith94]

Studying the physical qualities of the brain in an attempt to scientifically quantify intelligence is a fool's mission. European scientists in the 19th and early 20th century used this method to 'demonstrate' that the white man was smarter than the negro, the native american and the asian man. What they failed to mention was that they selected skulls to measure with tremendous bias, and the results are pretty meaningless anyway.


Now where'd I put my drugs??? I gotta break up my skull...

[alva]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


I only play it for fun and have never bothered to figure out various optimal ways to do things

* points ans laughs *

Girly man!!

[Combat Ingrid]

[BeBMan]

I spend more time modding than playing. That is what real men do!

[BeBMan]

Nah, it isn't that simple