Did you know women are less intelligent than men? I didn't...

[speedoo]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=405056&in_page_id=1770

" 'We know that men have larger brains, even when you take into account larger body size,' said the researcher. 'That means there are more neurons. The question is what these neurons are doing in a man - and they probably have an advantage in processing information.'

It is thought the difference may date back to the Stone Age, with women seeking out men who are more intelligent than them in a bid to pass on the best genes to their children.

'Some people have suggested it evolved because women prefer men who are more intelligent than they are for husbands,' said the professor.

'Just as they prefer men who are taller than them, they also prefer a male who is a little ahead of them in IQ.' "

(Do they really?? I've never been asked what my IQ was by a woman I asked out.)


Before you go nuts, ladies and girls, this is the same dude ....

"Prof Rushton, who four years ago triggered a scientific row by claiming intelligence and behaviour are influenced by race, with blacks being more likely to be involved in crime and Asians having a greater chance of high IQs, however, stands by his results."



I don't know what's more tragic, the fact that this idiot believes what he's saying, or that he actually gets paid to do this research. (He's at the University of Western Ontario.)





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[samsingh]

1. they're the same intelligence

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear speedoo!

I don't know whether to derisively laugh at him, or cry, or throw up!

I can't believe it, anyhow......



:wtf:

And of course, he stands by his results.....if he backs down now, he risks public ridicule!

:eyes:

[speedoo]

5. Laugh at him, Peggy.

That's the most healthy of your choices.:hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. You got that right!

Never did enjoy throwing up all that much!

:hi:

[mykpart]

6. This guy risks public ridicule when he opens his mouth!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. Too true, my dear mykpart!

:hi:

[av8rdave]

22. He obviously doesn't have very many neurons himself if...

he thinks he only "risks" public ridicule!

[mykpart]

3. The reason women have fewer brain cells than men

is because we don't have a penis to put them in! :rofl:

[speedoo]

4. Awwww... low blow!!

That's totally not fair.

(even though it's true):rofl:

[pokerfan]

9. ''The question is what these neurons are doing in a man''

Thinking about sex.

[Robeson]

10. Usually, those neurons fall down into their dick....

...which means the little head is actually doing the thinking, not the big head.

[pokerfan]

17. Lets face it, the little head always wins

Reminds of the Seinfeld:

Jerry (to himself): Uh oh. My organs are playing chess again.

Cut to the table where a slightly translucent Jerry's brain is playing chess with a similarly visible Jerry's penis.

Jerry's Brain: Well I'm getting a little tired of this. What do you say we play one for all the marbles?

Jerry's Penis: Oh Brain, what are you doing? You cannot beat me. Do you have any idea who you're dealing with? Forget about it!

Jerry's Brain: I can't take her anymore. I hate reading her stupid little acting scenes.

Jerry's Penis: Oh, so what? So you read from a little play. You can't put up with that for an hour to make me happy? You're so selfish. Give me one hour, then I will take over, you will not have to think for the rest of the night.

Jerry's Brain: What about tomorrow morning? Do you have any idea what that's like for me? Do you care? No, you don't care. So long as you get to do whatever it is you do. You disgust me.

Jerry's Penis: Oh, go read a book.

[av8rdave]

23. Reminds me of when my son came home from school one day

I think he was in the 8th grade. I asked him what he learned that day, and he said, "well, Dad, in health class we learned that the average physically mature male has a sexually related thought every 17 seconds."

He paused for a second, looked at me, and said, "what do YOU think about the other 16?"

The kid alway has been able to crack me up...

[Radical Activist]

39. exactly

so it probably comes out even.

[SKKY]

11. I find this very, very difficult to believe...

In fact, I'm sure this study was conducted by a man, which in and of itself makes it suspect. On the whole, I firmly
believe women to be the smarter sex.

[Robeson]

12. Cro-Magnon brains were larger than ours, yet we are here....

...which kind of pokes holes in the brain size theory.

[jpgray]

14. Sperm whale brains are huuuuuuuge

But then there is much we don't understand about brain chemistry and biology--waaay too many gaps to start making absolute claims about comparative intelligence between genders.

[Robeson]

15. Agreed.

[sarge43]

30. What I've never been able to figure out is

if women aren't as smart as men, why do they get the most important job - the care and primary education of the next generation? Seems to me we wouldn't want the lesser gender ....


Oh nevermind.

[jpgray]

13. We're never going to figure this shit out, and probably that's good

Women and men are different--each gender then by definition is going to be better or worse than the other at certain activities. A woman is (probably!) never going to hold a powerlifting world record, for example. But classifying one gender as "smarter" than the other is ridiculous. We don't understand our brains or our behavior anywhere near well enough to make such a sweeping claim, and moreover the potential for bias is too great both in reaching and interpreting these conclusions, because obviously we each have our identity tied up to some degree in gender. But then I don't believe any system can explain itself.

[Neoma]

16. The fact still stands that I read more than every single man I know.

:argh:

[Robeson]

18. Don't sweat it Neoma....

...this stuff needs to be put in the same light as how the Nazis used Social Darwinism to justify their actions. That was just as bogus as this stuff is.

[Neoma]

19. Of course.

But this one gets to me more.

[Robeson]

20. Understandable...

...:pals:

[windlight]

21. this is silly

I thought i had read somewhere that yea, the male brain was bigger but the female brain was more tightly packed with neurons.... and as we know from computers the closer the circuits are to each other the more powerful the machine. (ie the tighter packed neurons the smarter the person) :D

[In_The_Wind]

24. OW

That hurt my poor little brain. I'm glad you don't believe that bunk!

[miss_american_pie]

25. So does this mean

we get to stop saying "size doesn't matter?"

:hide:

[Deep13]

26. How do you explain that 60% of women voted for Gore?

If chicks couldn't vote, this country would really be fucked up.

[undeterred]

46. Touche!

Chicks can vote and we're still fucked up. In the next stage of human evolution the vote and the right to run for office will be taken away from all conservative white males. I can say with confidence that the world would be a better place.

[L A Woman]

27. if a larger brain means more neurons...

shouldn't elephants be running the world?

[Jamastiene]

28. The extra neurons are thinking of sex 24/7

along with about half the other neurons in many guys. Technically speaking, women and men have an equal capacity to learn and an equal chance at having either a high intelligence or a low intelligence depending on the local gene pool. Supposedly, that's the case. I don't know how to explain myself. I graduated high school with men who could not read. I am in college with male teachers who cannot spell, male students who can barely read, and female students that put me to shame in many areas.

I have to point out something sweet that happened today after calculus class. The Computer/Electronics Engineering guys all waited after class for me and we all walked to the parking lot together as a group. That is the first time that has ever happened. Maybe I am finally bonding with them. Some of them are among the smartest men in the school that I have met. Some of them are average, but they work out the extra stuff when they need to. There are four courses of study at the school that are difficult; nursing and computer/electronics/and mechanical engineering. I felt like one of the guys again even though I am female. I've finally bonded with them. This should be better now that we all realize we are all in this together. It felt nice.

In other words, where those guys can't figure something out, I can and where I can't figure something out, they can. Together we make a decent team of engineering students. My point is: it takes all types.

[mvd]

29. I don't think one sex is smarter

More males have the highest IQs, but more males also have the lowest IQs. I think they just think differently, and men and women complement each other. And sometimes they have different needs.

Not surprising about this guy's racial studies. Of course, there's no gene that makes a race smarter - any difference would be based on cultural aspects. In Asian countries, there's a higher drive to perform in school. Therefore the test scores.

[pokerfan]

47. It's not a matter of one sex being smarter

It's more a matter of each sex adapting and evolving in different directions.

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00018E9D-879D-1D06-8E49809EC588EEDF

"Parts of the corpus callosum, a major neural system connecting the two hemispheres, as well as another connector, the anterior commissure, appear to be larger in women, which may permit better communication between hemispheres."

[Darth_Kitten]

31. I'll just take a man who can put the toilet seat down........

rub my feet, and know something about hygiene. Oh, and doesn't spit on sidewalks.

I donut care nuthin' about no intallagance er nuthin'.

[speedoo]

32. LOL!!

What if he farts? And burps?

Is that OK?:shrug:

[Darth_Kitten]

36. Nope............

I'm a lady, and don't want to be subjected to icky bodily functions.

[speedoo]

38. Of course.

Those are in violation of your hygiene requirement. I should have known.

[LeftyMom]

33. I don't think I've ever dated a guy who was much smarter than me

I would have no interest in a gentleman whose intelligence was significantly less than my own, but I don't care if a fella's smarter than me or not as long as we're in the same general area and able to converse with and relate to each other. I think flvegan's a bit smarter than I am, but he says I'm smarter than he is, so we're probably pretty evenly matched (and both on the brainy side.)

[mvd]

34. Well, that's good if he tells you you are smarter

That's how he should respect you. :hi:

[LeftyMom]

35. Of course, he thinks I'm the good looking one too

so perhaps we shouldn't put too much weight on his opinion. ;)

[johnnie]

43. It should be..

I don't think I've ever dated a guy who was much smarter than *I*






:P



I had to

[LeftyMom]

44. According to the article, I should want you now.

:P

[johnnie]

45. It's not me you're after

It's my big brain.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

37. The Daily Mail has a reputation in the UK for being misogynist

racist, homophobic, anti-choice, pro-quack and pro-Bush. It doesn't like Tony Blair, not for the same reasons that we don't like him, but because they think he's turning Britain into a "socialist Stalinist hell-hole" (yes that is how Right-Wing they are).

This is the same Daily Mail that supported Hitler in the 1930s and spoke often of the "Jewish immigrant threat to Britain", the reason why the nickname "The Daily Fascist" still persists today.

Most British people think of the Daily Mail as a joke, the British equivalent of FOX News Channel-in print but actually more Right-wing that what FNC manages to be.

If you ever see an Daily Mail article, ignore it until it can be verified by another source, because it oozes bullshit by its very nature.

[speedoo]

40. Ah, that's good to know.

So, we have The Daily Mail on one side of things, and The Guardian on the other.

Do I have that right?

What about The Economist? Pretty much down the middle, would you agree?

[Anarcho-Socialist]

41. The Economist is moderately liberal

...it is worth noting liberal is considered centrist in Europe, and is pretty much down-the-middle. Of course the Economist would appear to be Marxist to your typical rabid Freeper.

[speedoo]

42. I should subscribe to The Economist.

It is probably the finest weekly in the world. It puts all the US weeklies to shame, IMO.

[u4ic]

48. Well, it ends on a positive note...

Women needn't feel despondent, however, as the scientists believe women can achieve just as much as men - as long as they work harder.

:eyes:

[speedoo]

50. That's just an outrageous statement, isn't it?

Unfortunately, there are many women who believe it's true. Probably most women in business do, based on my experience.

Even more unfortunate is that some men in business tend to believe the opposite is true.

[GOPisEvil]

49. I shall give this scientific article all the due respect it deserves.

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

No, seriously, tell me when the real study comes out.