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according to a British study they are....
August 25, 2005
from The Times UK
Is this a clever thing to say about women's IQ?
By Tony Halpin, Education Editor
HALF the population will dismiss this story, but a study claims that the cleverest people are much more likely to be men than women.
Men are more intelligent than women by about five IQ points on average, making them better suited for “tasks of high complexity”, according to the authors of a paper due to be published in the British Journal of Psychology.
Genetic differences in intelligence between the sexes helped to explain why many more men than women won Nobel Prizes or became chess grandmasters, the study by Paul Irwing and Professor Richard Lynn concluded.
They showed that men outnumbered women in increasing numbers as intelligence levels rise. There were twice as many with IQ scores of 125, a level typical for people with first-class degrees.
When scores rose to 155, a level associated with genius, there were 5.5 men for every woman.
Dr Irwing, a senior lecturer in organisational psychology at Manchester University, said that he was uncomfortable with the findings. But he added that the evidence was clear despite the insistence of many academics that there were “no meaningful sex differences” in levels of intelligence.
“For personal reasons I would like to believe that men and women are equal, and broadly that’s true. But over a period of time the evidence in favour of biological factors has become stronger and stronger,” he said.
“I have been dragged in a direction that I don’t particularly like, but it would be sensible if the debate was based on what we pretty much know to be the case.”
The findings from the study involving 24,000 students will intensify a battle of the sexes that was triggered last week by Michael Buerk, the BBC newscaster, who complained that “life is now being lived according to women’s rules”. He said that men had been reduced to little more than sperm-donors because of the female domin- ance of society.
Professor Lynn, a Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Ulster, is no stranger to inflammatory conclusions as the author of a number of publications arguing that there are differences in intelligence between racial groups.
He published a controversial study in 2003 that identified a clear correlation between the levels of prosperity in 60 countries and the average IQ of their populations.
Professor Lynn argued in a letter to The Psychologist this month that the differences between the sexes were explained by a link between IQ and brain size. He said: “Men have larger brains than women by about 10 per cent and larger brains confer greater brain power, so men must necessarily be on average more intelligent than women.”
whatever. I'm sure there's some fuzzy logic in this. What do you think, ladies?
Last edited by Jelly; 08-28-2005 at 07:36 PM.
Listen to 105.3 every weekday morning, you'll find out.
some are.
Some women are smarter than men.
Stupid survey IMO.
Men are smarter, but there everlasting quest for ass makes them do stupid things.
Who gives a ? I'll admit that alot of women are smarter than I am, but those same women can go out, and get drunk pass the point where its borderline liver failure, take some random guy home, and end up getting pregnant.
I believe that's true. But men probably waste 1/2 their brain power on sports and sex, so women are likely still more intelligentMen have larger brains than women by about 10 per cent and larger brains confer greater brain power
I'm just kidding. I actually know a lot more intelligent men than intelligent women.
, I'd make myself look ing like an ass, dumb, freak for a hot girl.
Me too
Damn bro, I'd shoot myself in the leg for one...........
Don't know if I'd go that far, but then again I don't know the farthest I'd go for a hot dumb girlDamn bro, I'd shoot myself in the leg for one...........
Sports & SexI believe that's true. But men probably waste 1/2 their brain power on sports and sex, so women are likely still more intelligent
I'm just kidding. I actually know a lot more intelligent men than intelligent women.
Guys...making yourself look like an "ass, dumb, freak" for a girl will seriously backfire.
Women DO NOT like stupid men, no matter how big a bimbo they are.
I'm sure that most girls would take a dumb guy if he was loaded.
Yes.
Well, what can I say? I'm a horny teenager.............
I would never take a dumb guy whether he was loaded or not. I could never be attracted to someone I didn't think was intelligent. No way. Don't care how rich he is, if he's a dumbass, I'm not interested. I think most other women would be just as turned off. (but not all, of course, so don't fret, dumb guys
look, I'm just trying to give you guys a hand (no pun intended). If you like a girl DON'T pretend to be stupid. Pretend to be smart. You'll get much farther.
Women have their ways to outsmart men.
I don't know how to say this........
Yes.
you have to be pretty smart to play some sports, much like brent barry he's a pretty smart basketball player... probably has more smarts than the entire WNBA... lol
men are stupid.
excellent point pimpo! 2 points for you.
yeah, and I hear Shaq is a genius
Well, some of the smartest people alive are men.
But so are most of the stupidest.
So it probably evens out.
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