Men are more intelligent than women?!

[KrazyHorse]

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by Lorizael
Is it is known why males have a wider range of IQs? Or rather, are there ideas?

One theory I heard is that in almost all species, females take care of the young. Which means that they are made for 'stability', while males 'fuel' evolution by taking more risks and competing. Greater discrepancies between individual characteristics amongst males would be both a symptom and a catalyst of this phenomenon. It is true indeed that the specy can survive with just a few men for many, many women.

[Dry]

The University of Western Ontario psychologist reached his conclusion after scrutinising the results of university aptitude tests taken by 100,000 students aged 17 and 18 of both sexes.

Doesn't sound this as a biased sample to you?

Either the journalist didn't relay correct information or those psychologists know jack sh** about population sample.

It just means to me that the average male student aged 17 and 18 taking university aptitude tests is 3.6 points more intelligent than the average female student aged 17 and 18 taking university aptitude tests.

So, either the psychologist or the author of this article has an IQ 30 points lower than an average dumb blonde.

So, who's the most likely to be an idiot: a psychologist or a jurnalist?
Difficult choice...

[Blaupanzer]

What difference does IQ actually make in the structure of the leadership of cultures that believe men are superior leaders, in any case? Selecting leaders is a cultural phenomena, not a scientific one. How "random" is a sample of tests taken by the applicants to one rather obscure college, in any case? Silly studies lead to silly conclusions then presented as silly articles and books.

[Lonestar]

Re: Men are more intelligent than women?!

Originally said by Ron Burgundy
You're just a woman, with a brain the third the size of a Man's. It's a scientific fact.

[SlowwHand]

How many women were in the movie Jackass?

[Dis]

those guys made a lot of money from that movie.

[VetLegion]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse


If we go by IQ tests your second assertion is correct, but your first assertion is wrong. Men and women get virtually identical mean IQ scores as groups.

Yep. But the fact that men have bigger standard deviation is very important because of the way normal distribution looks. At the tails of the bell curve, the farther we go, there is more men (on both sides).

This topic is still so hot, president of Harvard (Larry Summers) was basically fired for saying the above.

[Dis]

dare I say it (I didn't have the balls to say much in the OP ), but I think men will still dominate the super genius field. Not that there haven't been some amazingly smart women scientists. But I just don't see a woman being the next Einstein, or Stephen Hawking. And I don't think it's because of cultural upbringing.

But then you also have men that are dumb as rocks. As several others have mentioned before. Men are distributed at the top and bottome more. Women are more middle of the road. Overall this leads the scores to be pretty close.

So what does this mean? It means I'm tired of the *****ing about women not being CEO's and top scientists. . We must learn to accept our fate in the world. Just like I accept the fact I can't have a baby. Okay, it's not really that hard to get over. 9 months of pain followed by months and years of painful breast feeding doesn't exactly sound that great. But women have better orgasms than men, so that's more important that intelligence.

[SlowwHand]

Originally posted by Dis
those guys made a lot of money from that movie.

Way to illustrate my point.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by VetLegion


Yep. But the fact that men have bigger standard deviation is very important because of the way normal distribution looks. At the tails of the bell curve, the farther we go, there is more men (on both sides).

This topic is still so hot, president of Harvard (Larry Summers) was basically fired for saying the above.

I just said that. But thank you for telling me what a normal distribution looks like. I've never seen one before.

[Darius871]

Even IF there would be a statistically significant difference with a more representative sample, one could easily argue that the cause is environmental rather than genetic. In other words studies like this won't change anyone's mind.

[duke o' york]

This particular man is an idiot.

[SlowwHand]

Which is lower, an Idiot or a Moron? I feel we need a poll.

[Odin]

This is RUSHTON people. Just ignore him, he has an agenda.