Women’s brains are 8-13% smaller than men’s brains which works out to about a bar of soap worth of brain matter

Xein · 2018-04-04T19:37:21+00:00

It's true, but brain size = intelligence is probably a bit simplistic. I've seen where brain size to body ratio is a better measure of intelligence. There are animals with larger brains than ours, but that doesn't make them more intelligent (elephants). Since women have lower body mass this effect may not mean much.

I'd be more interested in the structural differences of specific areas of the brain between men and women and how testosterone affects brain development compared to estrogen.

bestpractice1 · 2018-04-04T21:31:53+00:00

Size isn't important - it's what you can actually do with it.

A brain used to improve the lot of humankind is better than one used to lie, cheat, deceive and steal - no matter the size.

MGTOWards · 2018-04-04T20:30:14+00:00

True, but this isn't the important thing.

I remember reading a long time ago - from my childhood encyclopaedia, I think - that the key to intelligence is not brain size, but surface area. That's why the brain has the gyri and sulci (the wrinkles). It maximizes the surface area that can be given inside the skull.

As far as I know, the surface area of the brain is similar in men and women, on average. So, scientifically, the average intelligence should be roughly comparable.

Should be.

andreas-mgtow · 2018-04-05T05:19:43+00:00

Instead of focusing on size, looking at function and performance might provide objectively measurable metrics:

Mental object rotation 2D and 3D: Men outperform weemen. Even uneducated Men outperform weemen of any educational level.
Maze solving: Men learn faster, solve faster and vectorize solutions. weemen are slower and navigate through landmarks.
Verbal recollection: weemen haver better recollection of verbal lists than Men.
Hand-eye coordination: Men outperform weemen. Men have faster response times and higher precision.
Rational decisioning / Risk evaluation: Men outperform weemen and take rational long term decisions based on overall risk vs reward, in gambling tasks.

As We can see, there's a delicate balance that endows each gender with important unique abilities:

1, 2 correlate to Geometrical/Mathematical/Engineering ability (mostly Men).

4 makes Men awesome at hunting, hand to hand combat and fragging the shit out of girls and soibois in First Person Shooters.

5 Makes Men rational risk takers.

3 Allows weemen a higher capacity for bitching and a superior ability for bringing up unimportant shit that happened years ago.

IsThatAll · 2018-04-04T22:59:23+00:00

There are a bunch of differences obviously, it really depends what parts of the brain are used and their relative size, and not the overall mass that's important.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/02/men-women-brains-wired-differently

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddisalvo/2013/12/08/study-the-brains-of-men-and-women-are-different-very-different/#686d4e9849d2

Interesting articles, and based on the timeline listed in OP's article would have been part of the findings. Still seems to be a bit of debate about what the findings actually mean. Its amazing to me that overall there is so little known about how the brain actually works.

http://www.fitbrains.com/blog/women-men-brains/ - this article takes a more simplistic view of the same study, and attempts to categorize. However based on AWALT principles, I can see a fair amount of correlation.

Wondering_Z · 2018-04-05T01:19:01+00:00

Some thingd are more important that the brain size: neocortex foldings and the ratio of the brain to body mass.

Mr_M0t0m0 · 2018-04-05T00:40:46+00:00

That explains a lot. AWALT

Title	Women’s brains are 8-13% smaller than men’s brains which works out to about a bar of soap worth of brain matter
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