Posted on 12/02/2006 2:46:48 AM PST by dennisw
http://education.independent.co.uk/higher/article2024763.ece
Can only link to the article. We cannot post Independent UK material
But seriously, it's been my observation that females develop mentally much faster than males....until about age 13, then all bets are off.
This scientifically collected data obviously indicates that the facts are a bunch of sexist pigs. They must therefore be banished from academia.
They would be lynched at Harvard by the feminazis and their male camp followers
My understanding of this is that you will also find far more men at the lower end of the scale as well.
Hi boys! Move over.
Is that why men have always told me that I had a woman's body...but I thought like a man.
"There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper."
–Camille Paglia
I know women in Mensa and Intertel who admit "Playing dumb". It is not a survival strategy.
It is a conquest strategy.
One poster mentioned a bimodal distribution among men. Really smart, or dumb as a brick, with a "hole" at the 50th percentile. From my forty year experience in the corporate culture, I think the theory has merit, and needs funding!
"you will also find far more men at the lower end of the scale as well"
Exactly correct. For a great variety of parameters, males (and not just human males, but males in general) have a greater variance. This means that you will find more males than females at the extremes when you measure not only intelligence but even such things as height. Even though women are in general shorter than men, more extremely short humans are males. If we personify Nature, she is more willing to take chances on males by allowing them to develop more to extremes. Because females are more important in getting the next generation established, Nature has to keep their variability within tighter bounds. Even though it takes two to make a baby, the woman's part in that effort is greater than the man's. In order to assure that most women are normal enough for those tasks, Nature sacrifices the high end of the distribution in order to avoid the low end. This is less of an issue with men, because, in a pinch, one competent male can start pregnancies with several females. His incompenent counterpart at the other end of the distribution loses and suffers, but Nature doesn't care about that. She does care about avoiding too many females who are too incompetent to successfully breed and raise the next generation.
They develop emotionally, and are more likely to respond in class, but the straight logical brain power of men cannot and should not ever be questioned.
It has been so forever and will be forever....
women think around a problem and men go right up the middle.
Because, that is just about the time that girls loose their minds and discover males? Just kidding!
A metaphor, as it were.
:^)
Why not both?
I get told the same thing.
I even hate shopping and have NFL season tickets. ;-)
And an IQ well above 120.
Looking at all the women libbers, nature really messed up with my generation.
Most women libbers are not worth it.
PS I have three great children and have been around and married to their mother for 23 years. I am lucky to have my wife. She is smarter than most people, men and women included, but smartness is not the reason to marry anyone.
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