[Macho Moron]

I was just conducting some research and i stumbled upon this article :

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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 the study showed that, up to the age of 14, 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".

His co-author Richard Lynn's previous work on the genetic and environmental influences on intelligence and race has proved controversial.

Prof Lynn, an emeritus professor at the University of Ulster, has argued that people of east Asian origin have higher IQs on average than Europeans, or that those from sub-Saharan Africa have lower IQs than African Americans.

Earlier this year, the president of Harvard University, Lawrence Summers, sparked controversy 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.

...comments?

[Dark_Clown]

only one comment... doesn't change that human beings are stupid ...

[xibo]

comment: that was posted by someone with 'macho' in his name =.="

[Macho Moron]

Quote: Originally Posted by xibo

comment: that was posted by someone with 'macho' in his name =.="

There's a 'moron' in my nick too.

I am not the scientist who found this out tho.

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only one comment... doesn't change that human beings are stupid ...

Agreed.

[Misuzu]

I dont think so. I think its different from person to person. It depends on how smart someone is, not if its a female or male.

[multy]

IQ depends on the food we eat, especially on fetus/unborn child. And not like most of us believe... IQ is not a fixed number, it can increase or decrease...

Most of us never encounter any decrease or increase because we tend to use our brain accordingly (not push it too hard (brain will shut down anyway if pushed too hard) or total neglect).

Food for brain like those commercials told us. Yup, there is technically a way to increase your neurons in the brain with food (some professor's theory). Girls going on diets for body shape and beauty may sacrifice their brain in doing so. So I am not surprised that someday men are cleverer than women in general.

It is not a gender strike issue... we men are concerned with our women... that is all. If we are considering who we want to as a mother for our kids and (a) wife(s)... we would want smart and beautiful women. Since beauty here is subjective, we will leave it up to women to decide.

So... who is hungry?

[Faust]

Men have to be more clever than women. Women are interesting enough without esprit, but a man has to work for it.

[jasonpolkadot]

Yes men are smarter than women but I already knew that. Great to see it's been confirmed.

[tori-kun]

I don't think the comment where men are smarter than women is fair. Some one is intelligent because they simply are
not because they're male or female.
However I do agree in this society females have that leg up, they can live alone with their beauty should this apply. On the other hand, males need to prove themselves, they really have to try harder, be more impressive... that's kinda what we have to resort to ><
Time to time, I think when I approach an female who has beauty, brawn, intellect.. I go there's no way to win eh? ever ? In the end, I just think when we do approach any intelligent person, we gotta show respect b/c they're just intelligent.

[ryomasa]

I think it's different from person to person i don't think this study prove's much if not anything.

[ogerawa]

wasn't there a study about the brain where women have pretty much around 10% or something more grey area in their brain than men. Forgot the accurate number mentioned in a book. Arr... just to make it clear i'm a guy tho ^^;

Edit: oopss forgot to make my point. That grey thingy is the thing that makes women actually more clever than men... or so the "book" said XD

[shingetter]

men cleverer than women? i dunno, the girls in my class seems to be cleverer than the boys though. but really why would they research something as useless as that?

[creative_destr]

Scientists already claim that males are stronger than females now smarter too? Women catch a break, I swear scientists try and belittle women as much as they can. In truth I reckon IQ is nothing to do with gender and it’s just about the individual person.

[megamano]

I've seen moronic men, moronic women, intelligent men and intelligent women.

I'll never believe in the 'genetic' excuse. For me, it depends on the person.

[Ultra-O]

I jus think that "Scientist" wanted most probably just attention so that his "study" is being finaced so bringing out something stupid like that and say its true will bring attention and some stupid Men and Femals will pay so that he can make sure he is rigth or to prove he is wrong. For him he has money and is happy, and can live on with that truly proved and really hard worked sicentistical Resarch.

So dont pay to much attention to such kind of studies its just bullshit