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[MeDieViL]

Men are smarter than women, according to a controversial new study that adds another cinder to the fiery debate over whether gender impacts general intelligence.

"For 100 years there's been a consensus among psychologists that there is no sex difference in intelligence," said J. Philippe Rushton, a psychologist at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.

Recent studies, however, have raised questions about the validity of this claim, he said. One such study showed that men have larger brains than women, a 100 gram difference after correcting for body size. Rushton found similar results in a study of gender and brain size.

To determine if there was a link between gender and intelligence, and perhaps between brain size and intelligence, Rushton and a colleague analyzed the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores from 100,000 17- and 18-year-olds.

G-factor

When Rushton and colleagues weighted each SAT question by an established general intelligence factor called the g-factor, they discovered that males surpassed females by an average of 3.6 IQ points.

The g-factor works like this. "If I tell you the last four digits of my telephone number and ask you to repeat them back to me, that's a low g-loaded memory test," Rushton explained. "But if I then ask you to repeat them back to me in the reverse order, that suddenly requires a tremendous amount more cognitive processing. It is a very high loaded g-item.”

So the g-factor "is really the active ingredient of the test," Rushton said. "It's the single best, most predictive part of the test."

Rushton suspects that the results are due to males having more brain tissue than females on average. "It's a very reasonable hypothesis that you just need more brain tissue dedicated to processing high ‘g' information," Rushton said.

The study, which Rushton co-wrote with Douglas Jackson, also of the University of Western Ontario, is detailed in the current issue of the journal Intelligence.

Flawed conclusion

Bruce Bracken, a psychologist at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, who was not involved in the new study, said he thinks Rushton and Jackson make a convincing argument for the sample they used.

"The difference appears to be real," Bracken said.

But he questions the team's conclusions. "I believe that the differences probably lie in the variables they hadn't considered," Bracken said.

One plausible explanation is that more females than males decide to go to college and thus take the SAT test. The study did in fact include about 10,000 more females than males.

"This suggests that more males are deciding to do something else," Bracken said. "It may be that the males who would not have scored as high on the SAT chose not to take it, and they chose another route."

A more reliable study, he said, would be to match each male with a very similar female and then compare the results.

The debate goes on

The findings add fuel to a still smoldering debate ignited by former Harvard President Lawrence Summers, who stated early last year that males have a higher intrinsic aptitude in science and engineering.

In a letter from Summers days after his controversial statements, he wrote: "Despite reports to the contrary, I did not say, and I do not believe, that girls are intellectually less able than boys, or that women lack the ability to succeed at the highest levels of science. As the careers of a great many distinguished women scientists make plain, the human potential to excel in science is not somehow the province of one gender or another.”

While Rushton called his results significant, he doesn't think they are a basis for uprooting the field of education.

"I don't think it has any real implications for education policy or schoolwork," he said. "In fact, females actually get better grades than males.”

Plus, he doesn't think the IQ difference would show up in everyday activities. "For the vast majority of people in the vast majority of jobs, it really doesn't translate into very much," he said.

But when it comes to Nobel Prize winners, he said that men could outnumber women 10-to-1. "Where it will really show up is at the very high end of the distribution," Rushton said.

Rushton has left the door open for opposing views and findings that might contradict his new study.

"I wouldn't say it's the last word. We really do need more research on it before we can be absolutely certain," Rushton said.

[Black Knight]

Origineel gepost door MeDieViL

Men are smarter than women

Sja... eigenlijk iets wat we allemaal al lang wisten, toch?

"I wouldn't say it's the last word. We really do need more research on it before we can be absolutely certain," Rushton said.

Totaal overbodig

[Jonko]

Origineel gepost door Black Knight

Sja... eigenlijk iets wat we allemaal al lang wisten, toch?

yup, kijk maar naar de vrouwen op dit forum

*schuilt achter muur*






jk

[Big T]

3.6 is niet om naar huis te schrijven, denk dat de verschillen vooral liggen in de manier waarop mannen en vrouwen hun hersens gebruiken. Mannen kunnen beter in 3 dimensies denken en hoofdrekenen maar vrouwen kunnen meer taken tegelijk afhandelen en uiten gevoelens makkelijker. Er is meer dan alleen IQ, en zoals ze al aanhalen is er nog meer studie nodig om het fijne van de zaak te weten.

[Lauw]

Maar mannen zijn nog steeds hondslelijk en hebben nog steeds geen vagina, waarmee dit onderzoek dus direct bij het oud papier kan.

[jaapie]

Origineel gepost door Big_T

3.6 is niet om naar huis te schrijven, denk dat de verschillen vooral liggen in de manier waarop mannen en vrouwen hun hersens gebruiken. Mannen kunnen beter in 3 dimensies denken en hoofdrekenen maar vrouwen kunnen meer taken tegelijk afhandelen en uiten gevoelens makkelijker. Er is meer dan alleen IQ, en zoals ze al aanhalen is er nog meer studie nodig om het fijne van de zaak te weten.

IQ zegt ook helemaal niet zoveel over intelligentie, zeker omdat niemand weet wat er met intelligentie bedoeld wordt En dat van die hersengrote is al helemaal bullshit, er zijn zat dieren met grotere hersenen dan ons.

[SHUTTERSPEED]

soms zou ik van mensen willen dat ze een hoger EQ hebben.
dan heb ik het over mensen die alleen maar schijten, stinken, zeiken en zeuren.

boeiend, sommige vrouwen zijn slimmer dan mij sommige misschien dommer, lekker belangrijk. als je ze maar kan palen.

[Suicide Sid]

Het is allemaal nurture en geen nature. Waarom zijn mannen beter in wiskunde en vrouwen in multitasking? Waarschijnlijk omdat het van hen verwacht wordt van in de wieg.

[jaapie]

Hoe wordt in deze maatschappij van een vrouw verwacht dat ze zich van jongs af aan bezig houdt met meerdere dingen tegelijk?

[Bracke]

Laatst was ik in m'n electronicaschoolboek aan het studeren. Ons moeder komt erbij staan (iets wat ze normaal nooit doet). Ze bekijkt m'n cursus en zegt:

"Is het moeilijkste niet dat je moet weten waar dat allemaal voor staat?? Al die formules??"

Waar ze haar blik verder wend naar een papiertje met windows xp product codes (Ik had diezelfde dag nog windows geïnstalleerd) en zegt:

"Snap je bv hier wat dit allemaal wil zeggen"

Ze dacht namelijk dat t formules waren...


Verder dacht ze ooit dat "Heal the world" van Michael Jackson wilde zeggen: "Heel de wereld" (Heal of hiejl is namelijk ook Antwerps dialect voor Heel of Gans)


Dit stukje bevestigd dit allemaal

[Bracke]

Oh ja.. En Musulini was ooit een tovenaar (zoals Copperfield)

[SHUTTERSPEED]

haha lol, alleen is het wel wat stellig om je moeder als vb voor alle vrouwen te nemen.

[Karl029]

Origineel gepost door Bracke

Oh ja.. En Musulini was ooit een tovenaar (zoals Copperfield)

Je bedoelt Muesli?