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Twice as many men than women have 120 plus IQs
education.independent.co.uk ^

Posted on 12/02/2006 2:46:48 AM PST by dennisw

http://education.independent.co.uk/higher/article2024763.ece

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bfd; iq; sexes
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1 posted on 12/02/2006 2:46:53 AM PST by dennisw
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To: dennisw
That's a very big link.
2 posted on 12/02/2006 2:51:16 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: dennisw

But seriously, it's been my observation that females develop mentally much faster than males....until about age 13, then all bets are off.


3 posted on 12/02/2006 2:52:45 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Barack Hussein Obama)
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This scientifically collected data obviously indicates that the facts are a bunch of sexist pigs. They must therefore be banished from academia.


4 posted on 12/02/2006 2:53:56 AM PST by jim35 ("...when the lion and the lamb lie down together, ...we'd better damn sure be the lion")
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To: Jeff Chandler
Because this is big news! What is your cat's IQ?
5 posted on 12/02/2006 2:55:17 AM PST by dennisw
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To: jim35
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

6 posted on 12/02/2006 2:57:22 AM PST by dennisw
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My understanding of this is that you will also find far more men at the lower end of the scale as well.


7 posted on 12/02/2006 2:57:56 AM PST by jocon307 (The Silent Majority - silent no longer)
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She doesn't seem to understand this... /sarc
8 posted on 12/02/2006 3:00:20 AM PST by kinoxi
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Y chromosome ....

More likely to exhibit extremes and recessive traits.

Does that mean that being 'dumbed down' is a dominant trait (or rather the result of dominant traits...)???
9 posted on 12/02/2006 3:05:37 AM PST by wodinoneeye
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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.


10 posted on 12/02/2006 3:10:09 AM PST by Chickensoup (If you don't go to the holy war, the holy war will come to you.)
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To: dennisw
"There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper."
–Camille Paglia

11 posted on 12/02/2006 3:14:21 AM PST by Wormwood (Enjoy this post while it lasts!)
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To: wodinoneeye
Does that mean that being 'dumbed down' is a dominant trait (or rather the result of dominant traits...)???

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!

12 posted on 12/02/2006 3:19:15 AM PST by Gorzaloon ("Illegal Immigrant": The Larval form of A Democrat.)
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To: jocon307

"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.


13 posted on 12/02/2006 3:20:24 AM PST by Stirner
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To: Jeff Chandler
But seriously, it's been my observation that females develop mentally much faster than males..

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.

14 posted on 12/02/2006 3:22:40 AM PST by Nitro (A)
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Because, that is just about the time that girls loose their minds and discover males? Just kidding!


15 posted on 12/02/2006 3:33:58 AM PST by Coldwater Creek (The TERRORIST are the ones who won the midterm elections!)
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To: Nitro
women think around a problem and men go right up the middle.

A metaphor, as it were.

:^)

16 posted on 12/02/2006 3:34:46 AM PST by Eclectica (Ask your MD about Evolution. Please!)
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To: dennisw
Maybe so, but when they do hit 120 or greater, look out!

Ergo: Ann Coulter, Michell Malkin, Condi Rice, Hillary(good God), Nancy P!(maybe).
17 posted on 12/02/2006 3:36:16 AM PST by madconserv (Jesus take the wheel- The time is here.)
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To: Eclectica
A metaphor, as it were. :^)

Why not both?

18 posted on 12/02/2006 3:38:22 AM PST by Nitro (A)
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To: Chickensoup
Is that why men have always told me that I had a woman's body...but I thought like a man.

I get told the same thing.

I even hate shopping and have NFL season tickets. ;-)

And an IQ well above 120.

19 posted on 12/02/2006 3:40:36 AM PST by Allegra (Vote Dulcie / Finbar 2008)
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To: Stirner

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.


20 posted on 12/02/2006 3:42:09 AM PST by 2ndClassCitizen
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