Report Claims Men More Intelligent Than Women
In controversial research reported all over the place, Richard Lynn, the emeritus professor of psychology at Ulster University claims that, on average, men are more intelligent than women. Let battle commence!
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As the research is not yet published there's nothing more to go on than the press reports. The co-author of the study, Dr Irwing, a senior lecturer in organisational psychology at Manchester University, is apologetic about the findings.
In the BBC News report he states that the paper will go on to argue that despite their disadvantage in IQ, there is evidence that women utilise their (lesser!) talents better than men. This simply begs the question of what use IQ tests are if they don't predict anything in the real world.
Wikipedia has a quite technical article on IQ which is worth skimming.
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No! What the study would seem to indicate is that the current generation of women (14 year olds) are equall in intelligence to men. In older generations there is an increasing discrepancy in favor of men. This could be quite possibly due to differential social pressures and educational opportunities.
Also intelligence as measure on a test is a pretty wierd thing and not necessarily linked to anything very useful. I read once that a man put his baby in its cot on the roof of his car and drove off forgetting it was there. Can you imagine a woman doing that?
Women are more academic and in a fair number of jobs, IQ is an indicator of success.
However aspects like bias pay against women, most women choose to pretend its doesn't happen.
I think generally this kind of research has more negative than postive implications.
"I read once that a man put his baby in its cot on the roof of his car and drove off forgetting it was there. Can you imagine a woman doing that?"
Lol whats that got to do with anything?