In response to the claim that girls are 'smarter' than boys: Sex Differences in General Intelligence

namae_nanka · 2015-01-29T11:02:00+00:00

I mentioned the study yesterday in another thread. The inflammatory girls are 'smarter' was clickbait.

The authors Stoet and Geary are basically on our side. Their paper on publication bias in stereotype threat affecting girls' performances in maths was a craw in the feminist establishment, and here is the lead author(Stoet) on the paper mentioned yesterday,

At the moment we see that, with the exception of high-achievers, boys have poorer educational outcomes than girls around the world, independent of social equality indicators. What’s more is that this gap in not reducing. If policy makers are seriously concerned about gender equality in education, this ought to be their top priority. That it is not is probably fuelled by a lack of public understanding of the distribution of skills which we have highlighted in this and previous studies. For example, listening to many news stories in the media, one can easily get the idea that girls around the world are falling behind boys, in particular in countries with known gender inequality. The reality is quite different in the many countries participating in PISA, which many may find surprising.

http://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_388432_en.html

SporkTornado · 2015-01-29T15:27:02+00:00

Does this mean we can get rid of all the women's only scholarships? I mean if girls are so much smarter than boys, we would not need any special programs for helping girls out. Come to think of it, we should start pouring money into special programs aimed at helping men and boys so they can catch up with their intellectually superior female peers.

Title	In response to the claim that girls are 'smarter' than boys: Sex Differences in General Intelligence
Author	EvilPundit
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Date	January 29, 2015 9:06 AM UTC (11 years ago)
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