Somehow, I think this is slightly one-sided...

girlwriteswhat · 2013-08-25T16:25:15+00:00

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because_misogyny · 2013-08-25T17:45:06+00:00

Fun and games with tailored studies and statistics.

TracyMorganFreeman · 2013-08-25T20:36:31+00:00

I see the lack of comparison for one male introduced compared to all female group.

2013-08-25T21:25:55+00:00

The scientist in me is very interested in how one measures "collective intelligence." Also, I agree that there should have been a woman-only group. I don't trust the study from the sentence alone, but it seems a bit unfair to say it was trying to prove women are smarter. Just seems like probably a bad study.

marauderp · 2013-08-25T18:07:36+00:00

The only way this statistic means anything is if it also compares teams of all women and women + 1 man.

Even then it's probably not going to mean anything without a fairly large sample size.

Nomenimion · 2013-08-25T20:56:02+00:00

Lots of bologna floating around.

accountdureddit · 2013-08-26T23:32:57+00:00

I'd say men try to impress the woman and act more mature, but that's just my 2 cents.

CosmicKeys · 2013-08-25T17:00:08+00:00

It didn't work so well here. Calling bullshit.

2095conash · 2013-08-25T18:45:42+00:00

Personally I am inclined to believe that what they said is true, even if you ignore social and biological 'teachings' that better equip men to think like A and women to think like B that /u/fishing-for-downvote pointed out, because the idea to me that a group would be entirely devoid of females sounds to me like they're intentionally being kept out (not saying that like engineering wouldn't be male dominated, but I'd think that maybe one or two women might be apart of it), which would mean that even in a more numbers sort of 'IQ' system the group would be keeping them out well learned women, so they're lowering their collective understanding.

And even aside from that the implications of that statement would severely trouble me if it ever went mainstream. Since it's exact wording may imply women>men since they didn't talk about how women only groups compare to women dominated groups. As well I would also be concerned that even if they released a gender neutral statement saying that groups including both genders outperform groups with only one gender, that it may convince an engineering group that only has males that to 'better' the group they have to appeal to women who don't care and don't know about the subject rather than just appealing to anyone who does, which comes off to me as saying that an 'unlearned' woman makes a group smarter than a learned man. Which such efforts for essentially getting a token girl I imagine would make an engineering group worse at engineering than if they instead put efforts in just getting people who are interested in engineering.

Just seems like a rather poorly thought out statement/tests/whatever to me. And as long as it doesn't somehow become apart of societal beliefs, it mainly sounds to me like common sense, but once it does.... any group that follows it's ideology will likely suffer by improperly treating gender as a higher standard of intelligence than actual intelligence.

Title	Somehow, I think this is slightly one-sided...
Author	ga13be
Upvotes	70
Comments	41
Date	August 25, 2013 4:21 PM UTC (12 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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