The lower-IQ sex: Measures to socially engineer more women into top positions are attempts to force square pegs into round holes and will founder on the rock of human nature

masterpi · 2010-05-02T22:00:15+00:00

I'm beginning to think Jayhammers and his crew are actually trying to discredit the men's rights movement.

And, as I've been saying to everyone in these IQ threads -

IQ CORRELATES with intelligence, it does not REPRESENT intelligence and IQ tests cannot quantify the most important part of true intelligence - which is creativity.

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Men are stronger on reasoning, mathematical and spatial abilities, while women are as strong on verbal intelligence,

Good god, that tripe is so old and disproven as to be ludicrous - men are not worse than women in "verbal intelligence" and "mathematical/spatial" intelligence female babies actually have an advantage for quite some time - and culturally only in the West do women lag behind men in math (in asia women continually rank as well as men).

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The brain-size hypothesis is the real red flag here, especially since Einstein had a smaller brain than average. Its not SIZE but how brain-areas are used.

This was a worthless piece without any references to research new or old.

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The IQ differences are reference to this study:

"Since males have the bigger brains, they must have the smarts, right? In one study, scientists converted the SAT scores of 100,000 17- and 18-year-olds to a corresponding IQ score and found that males averaged 3.63 IQ points higher than the females [source: Jackson, Rushton]. The study, did, however, use about 10,000 more females than males, which may have affected the average, but the study's authors believe that the greater the brain tissue, the greater the ability for cognitive processing [source: Bryner]."

Which is only in the US and only among people who take the SAT - its been proven that boys who don't think they're going to do well on the SAT don't take it, but a higher number of girls take the SAT even if they know they'll do poorly. What does this mean? It means that the sample of male students taking the SAT represents a better academic pool than the sample of female students taking the SAT - if they only measured male 4.0 students against female 4.0 students (enrolled in the same classes, at the same school) and then still came out with a 3 point IQ difference they might have a point but the study as it was done is useless because it has no controls.

cryptogirl · 2010-05-03T01:44:20+00:00

Does anyone really doubt that the people who design IQ tests score in the top percentiles of their own "objective" assessments? I'm sorry, but idea that intelligence is an empirically quantifiable characteristic is laughable.

Theoden · 2010-05-02T21:19:54+00:00

Well, Psychology is far from a science, and this chap sure sets out to prove this point.

Theoden · 2010-05-02T21:53:45+00:00

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kanuk876 · 2010-05-02T21:47:09+00:00

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bowling4meth · 2010-05-02T21:53:03+00:00

There are a substantial number of reasons but none of them have anything to do with what the article said. The biggest reason in a nutshell is not that women are geared up to have babies, but that they can and men can't. Because they can, if they wish to have babies they have to be the ones that give birth.

There's no reason why women can't then go back to work, but you try taking 2-5 years out of your career in your 20s-30s and get that top notch job. Seriously, what about the women who want to do the school run, so it's a higher priority for them than work? Women who want to do stuff with their kids? Because men can't have kids they would be looking at reducing their bread-winning capabilities in order to achieve the same goal. It's not like the 50s where the woman stayed at home and the man brought in all the cash, but there is a substantial discrepancy due to the time taken out by the woman.

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masterpi · 2010-05-03T01:47:53+00:00

34 down votes, huh? I guess objective reasoning isn't the misandrists' strong suit.

bleaf · 2010-05-02T21:18:09+00:00

Good thing the world is moving toward data driven parallel decision making instead of bottlenecking key decisions in the hands of narcissistic male oligark's.

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