OFFICIAL!!! Research shows men ARE more intelligent than Womenz!

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - OFFICIAL!!! Research shows men ARE more intelligent than Womenz!

Posted: 8/25/2005 2:41:27 AM EDT

Last Updated: Thursday, 25 August 2005, 09:57 GMT 10:57 UK

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'Men cleverer than women' claim

Who will get a first?
Academics in the UK claim their research shows that men are more intelligent than women.
A study to be published later this year in the British Journal of Psychology says that men are on average five points ahead on IQ tests.

Paul Irwing and Professor Richard Lynn claim the difference grows when the highest IQ levels are considered.

Their research was based on IQ tests given to 80,000 people and a further study of 20,000 students.

'Widening gap'

Dr Irwing, a senior lecturer in organisational psychology at Manchester University, told the Today programme on BBC Radio Four that up until the age of 14, the study showed there was no difference between the IQs of boys and girls.

"But beyond that age and into adulthood there is a difference of five points, which is small but it can have important implications," he said.

"This is against a background of women dramatically overtaking men in educational attainment and making very rapid advances in terms of occupational achievement."

The academics used a test which is said to measure "general cognitive ability" - spatial and verbal ability.

As intelligence scores among the study group rose, the academics say they found a widening gap between the sexes.

There were twice as many men with IQ scores of 125, for example, a level said to correspond with people getting first-class degrees.

At scores of 155, associated with genius, there were 5.5 men for every woman.

Nobel prize-winners

Dr Irwing told The Times, the differences "may go some way to explaining the greater numbers of men achieving distinctions of various kinds, such as chess grandmasters, Fields medallists for mathematics, Nobel prize-winners and the like".

The paper will argue that there is evidence that at the same level of IQ, women are able to achieve more than men "possibly because they are more conscientious and better adapted to sustained periods of hard work".

Earlier this year, the president of Harvard University Lawrence Summers sparked controversy when he when he suggested at a seminar that one reason men outperformed women in maths and science was genetics.

Several guests walked out of the conference after hearing the comments.

Dr Summers, who has apologised repeatedly for his remarks, said later that the shortage of senior female academics was partly caused by child-minding duties, which restricted working hours.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4183166.stm

Posted: 8/25/2005 2:44:09 AM EDT

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Posted: 8/25/2005 2:44:34 AM EDT

[#2]

Sammich making isn't rocket science, but it is arguably more important.

Posted: 8/25/2005 2:51:29 AM EDT

[#3]

tag for work!

Posted: 8/25/2005 2:51:40 AM EDT

[#4]

this is no suprise at all. I mean how much smarts does one need to be barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen making sammiches and yapping on the phone all day?

Posted: 8/25/2005 3:23:12 AM EDT

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I have always thought that the smartest people tend to be men, and the dumbest tend to be men as well.

No real proof or anything, that's just been my experience so far.

Posted: 8/25/2005 3:24:56 AM EDT

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I have always thought that the smartest people tend to be men, and the dumbest tend to be men as well.

No real proof or anything, that's just been my experience so far.

That pretty much mirrors my observations.

Posted: 8/25/2005 3:47:06 AM EDT

[#7]

I'm intellegent enough to know that I will not be using this as a topic of discussion with my wife at dinner tonight.

Posted: 8/25/2005 3:54:56 AM EDT

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If men are smarter then why do women have all the pussy and half the money? Looks like they won to me.

Posted: 8/25/2005 5:17:21 AM EDT

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If men are smarter then why do women have all the pussy and half the money? Looks like they won to me.

I got the Gold Card… she ain't!!!!

Posted: 8/25/2005 10:53:26 AM EDT

[#10]

Bump for the day shift…

Posted: 8/25/2005 10:59:41 AM EDT

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If men are smarter then why do women have all the pussy and half the money? Looks like they won to me.

Me having a large brain is far more advantageous than me having a big pussy.

Posted: 8/25/2005 11:01:58 AM EDT

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Posted: 8/25/2005 11:18:14 AM EDT

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Quoted:
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If men are smarter then why do women have all the pussy and half the money? Looks like they won to me.

Me having a large brain is far more advantageous than me having a big pussy.

Depends, if you have a little dick ,you still lose.

Posted: 8/25/2005 11:20:03 AM EDT

[#14]

Big surprise there.

Posted: 8/25/2005 11:22:29 AM EDT

[#15]

This oughta be good.

Dammit, where's my popcorn?

Posted: 8/25/2005 11:24:24 AM EDT

[#16]

I'm sure its only because we've been oppressing them for so long.

Posted: 8/25/2005 11:24:59 AM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
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If men are smarter then why do women have all the pussy and half the money? Looks like they won to me.

Me having a large brain is far more advantageous than me having a big pussy.

Depends, if you have a little dick ,you still lose.

Point taken

Posted: 8/25/2005 11:42:47 AM EDT

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Hmmm,...if the following is true,...
http://www.physorg.com/news5668.html

The Daily Mail, quoting findings published in the specialist magazine NeuroImage, said researchers at Sheffield university in northern England discovered startling differences in the way the brain responds to male and female sounds.

Men deciphered female voices using the auditory part of the brain that processes music, while male voices engaged a simpler mechanism, it said.

The Mail quoted researcher Michael Hunter as saying, "The female voice is actually more complex than the male voice, due to differences in the size and shape of the vocal cords and larynx between men and women, and also due to women having greater natural 'melody' in their voices.

"This causes a more complex range of sound frequencies than in a male voice."

The findings may help explain why people suffering hallucinations usually hear male voices, the report added, as the brain may find it much harder to conjure up a false female voice accurately than a false male voice.

Perhaps the researchers simply are not hearing us and therefore have limited ability to "rate" our intelligence.

Here's some more that might be of interest...
www.neuropsychiatryreviews.com/mar05/menandwomen.html

Personally, I believe we are more intelligent than men in certain areas, and Men are usually more intelligent than us, in other areas. We each have our own abilities. Why we make a good team if committed.

Posted: 8/25/2005 11:58:16 AM EDT

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Perhaps the researchers simply are not hearing us and therefore have limited ability to "rate" our intelligence.

Perhaps the researchers are tired of listening to you womenz nag?

Posted: 8/25/2005 12:00:26 PM EDT

[#20]

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If men are smarter then why do women have all the pussy and half the money? Looks like they won to me.

lotta post thieves runnin' around here.

Posted: 8/25/2005 12:15:09 PM EDT

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Perhaps the researchers simply are not hearing us and therefore have limited ability to "rate" our intelligence.

Perhaps the researchers are tired of listening to you womenz nag?

Ahh my dear mattja, you have disproven your own statement regarding the article.
We wouldn't HAVE to nag if 'some' men listened in the first place.

Posted: 8/25/2005 12:16:34 PM EDT

[#22]

there are different types of intelligence.

Posted: 8/25/2005 12:24:14 PM EDT

[#23]

This is not earthshaking news. It has been recognized for quite some time that male intelligence is slightly higher on average, but that there is also much greater variance among male IQ than among females. This explains why most geniuses are men, as are most idiots. And no, I am not joking.

Posted: 8/25/2005 12:28:06 PM EDT

[#24]

How smart do you have to be to make a sammich?

Sammich hunting? That takes skill and intelligence!

Posted: 8/25/2005 1:26:33 PM EDT

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Quoted:
How smart do you have to be to make a sammich?

Sammich hunting? That takes skill and intelligence!

And CUNNING !

Don't forget the cunning !

Posted: 8/25/2005 1:48:26 PM EDT

[#26]

I've met some real dumbasses of both sexes. I think that there are varying degrees, so I wouldn't say that men are generally more intelligent overall.

Posted: 8/25/2005 6:28:04 PM EDT

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I've met some real dumbasses of both sexes. I think that there are varying degrees, so I wouldn't say that men are generally more intelligent overall.

Quoting this one so you can't get rid of it...a woman saying that she thinks men are usually more intelligent.

Posted: 8/25/2005 6:32:15 PM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
Quoted:
I've met some real dumbasses of both sexes. I think that there are varying degrees, so I wouldn't say that men are generally more intelligent overall.

Quoting this one so you can't get rid of it...a woman saying that she thinks men are usually more intelligent.

Posted: 8/25/2005 6:33:26 PM EDT

[#29]

Makes sense to me. How many female Ph.D's have you met, now how many male Ph.D's have you met? Talking about math & physical sciences here, math, physics, chemistry, engineering.

Yeah... thats right.

Posted: 8/25/2005 7:04:03 PM EDT

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Quoted:
Quoted:
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I've met some real dumbasses of both sexes. I think that there are varying degrees, so I wouldn't say that men are generally more intelligent overall.

Quoting this one so you can't get rid of it...a woman saying that she thinks men are usually more intelligent.

Well I think I just showed which sex is smarter there.

Posted: 8/25/2005 7:08:54 PM EDT

[#31]

I knew it.

Posted: 8/25/2005 7:13:42 PM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
I've met some real dumbasses of both sexes. I think that there are varying degrees, so I wouldn't say that men are generally more intelligent overall.

Quoting this one so you can't get rid of it...a woman saying that she thinks men are usually more intelligent.

Reading comprehension is good for you!

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