Why Are Men More Intelligent Than Women?

actually i am much smarter than most boys that i know and i am very short(5 feet maybe 5’1) and i am in the top five most intelligent people in my grade.

Let me rephrase: “Why are women more intelligent than men?”

Now we can continue discussing. 😉

Apparently men also have the edge in the imbecilic range, so I’d say that makes us even, no? 🙂

On a more serious note, you might want to look up your two esteemed professors before relying on their assertions. Both are known for their very controversial stances on holocaust denial and eugenics. It throws a little doubt on their motives and impartiality, I think.

I just told you that you are relying on the research of ardent Neo-Nazis. I rather think you’ll have to rebuild your position a little better than that.

Also, think upon the reason why they were the first ones you found.

I don’t even get the point. So let’s say it’s true. Now what? So if someone is choosing whom to affiliate with they know which one to pick? Or does it somehow make you better as a man because you are part of a group with more smart people? What about you Csar? What’s your own IQ? Because the fact is if it’s lower than, for example, OneOfMany’s (which is likely), then you aren’t as smart as her no matter how many Nobel Laureates you have on your team. And the only one that defines you is you; if you don’t think so you have other issues.

“I’ve checked out Churchill’s Second World War and the statement is quite correct – not a single mention of Nazi ‘gas chambers,’ a ‘genocide’ of the Jews, or of ‘six million’ Jewish victims of the war.

– Richard Lynn, Professor Emeritus University of Ulster, December 5, 2005

This is of course a mere scholarly observation, there is no real meaning imputed, of course, hur hur.

3. Nobel Prize achievements are an incredibly shoddy basis for your argument, for a number of reasons.

Is the fact that the Jewish People, as a whole, are on average significantly more intelligent than gentiles similarly irrelevant?

I don’t know, but your argument certainly is.

Men may be more intelligent, but women are definitely smarter…

Who writes IQ tests, anyway? They are probably gender-biased. For that matter, the educatinal system for the last many centuries has been gender-biased against women, who weren’t allowed access to higher education till about 100 years ago. And then it was something for the wealthy. That would probably explain the Nobel prizes, too. It is only a recently accepted fact that a woman can devote her life to research…

Csar – let them keep telling themselves they are greater and better, and everybody is happy. Us with the truth and them with their poor deluded misguided [blind] defences!!!

Is the fact that the Jewish People, as a whole, are on average significantly more intelligent than gentiles similarly irrelevant?

Yup. But even if it were (true and) relevant, it would be for reasons which don’t apply to this argument.

i love coffe : thanx for writting that

y do u think most girls take an older guy not one her age cuz an older guy would be practically on her intel level one her age would be to low to be able to live w and have a normal conversation

I think Jews are often the “smartest” people because we are raised with ideals of structure, dedication, and tenacity, all things found in the Torah, and things that a big part of our lives. And those things are key to success in anything. The Japanese are also a people who are raised with similar values, and they are also some of the smartest people.

Sorry, gross error: A lot more girls than boys are in the gifted class. I know this because I’m in the educational system and it’s a known undisputed fact for anyone working with these classes.

Doesn’t the Gemorah say that while men react with intelligence, women react with emotion? Maybe the same Gemorah with Noshim Daaton Kalos.

OneOfMany –

^_^ +1 to your long post.

Statistics can be manipulated, as we all know. Some males consistently score higher on mathematical portions of IQ tests. Females, however, consistently score significantly higher on the reading comprehension/verbal areas, Since we need to talk and comprehend what we are hearing, a lot more than we need to figure out how fast a train is going to meet up with another train travelling in the opposite direction, I figure that the need for excellent verbal and communication skills is greater. Hence (I LOVE that word), the seichel given to women is more relevant, IMO.

But – you are correct – to the extent that men traditionally were afforded educational and employment opportunities that were frequently denied to women in areas that test their mathematical skills, so that they were unable to discover and hone their innate intellectual abilities until recent decades.

Are men smarter than women? No. But they sure think they are. An analysis of some 30 studies by British researcher Adrian Furnham, a professor of psychology at University College London, shows that men and women are fairly equal overall in terms of IQ. But women, it seems, underestimate their own candlepower (and that of women in general), while men overestimate theirs. Furnham talks to NEWSWEEK’s Joan Raymond about his findings and why perceived IQ matters. Excerpts:

NEWSWEEK: Many studies show that men score slightly higher in IQ tests. Is this significant?

Adrian Furnham: Universally, men tend to score higher on certain specialized skills, such as spatial awareness. In the real world, that means they might be better at reading maps or navigating. Women score higher in terms of language development and emotional intelligence. But most experts agree there is no real, important overall difference when it comes to gender and intelligence.

But women think they aren’t as smart as men?

That’s the conundrum. What I study is “perceived intelligence,” essentially how smart people think they are. I analyzed 30 international studies, and what I found was that women, across the world, tend to underplay their intelligence, while men overstate it.

So do most men think they’re Albert Einstein?

There certainly is a greater male ego. It’s what we call the male hubris and female humility effect. Men are more confident about their IQ. These studies show that on average, women underestimate their IQ scores by about five points while men overestimate their own IQs. Since these studies were international in scope, the results were essentially the same whether women were from Argentina, America, Britain, Japan or Zimbabwe. Another factor affecting perception may be distribution of IQ … Although [men and women] are on average the same, the people at the very top and the very bottom of the IQ bell curve are more likely to be men. That is a pattern that we see in the university setting, with men either being at the very top of the class or at the bottom.

Do women tend to think that men are smarter than they are?

Surprisingly, [both] men and women perceive men being smarter across generations. Both sexes believe that their fathers are smarter than their mothers and grandfathers are more intelligent than their grandmothers.

What about the kids?

If there are children, [both] men and women think their sons are brighter than their daughters.

Did the data surprise you?

Absolutely. And it is worrying in the sense that it may mean parents send inappropriate or misleading messages to their children about their abilities. It is also surprising since school results, at least in Great Britain, indicate quite clearly that girls are doing better than boys in nearly all subjects. What was interesting was that some groups of people, both men and women, got it so wrong. Men with average to below-average intelligence think that they are quite clever. And very smart women think their intelligence is low.

Does any of this matter in the real world?

Men aren’t more clever or smarter. But since they think they are, they are more confident about their abilities. These self-beliefs, however, may be highly adaptive. Who gets a job? A bright woman who doesn’t think she’s smart, or a not-so-bright man who believes he’s capable of anything? Arrogance and hubris are not attractive qualities, but confident, self-belief may be. Certainly, underestimating abilities might hurt you. There’s a good quote from one of your countrymen, Henry Ford. He says: “Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.” And that is what is troublesome. Beliefs may be more important than actual ability in certain settings.

So women have a self-esteem problem?

I’m not advocating for self-esteem training and therapy. I think that many of the self-help gurus argue incorrectly that improved self-esteem increases performance. Helping people to perform better increases their self esteem. Giving a kind of carte blanche to self-esteem isn’t a good idea in my mind. Rather, I think it should be that increased performance and feedback on the causes of that performance, ability or effort raises self-esteem. As I said, in primary and secondary schools, girls are outperforming boys. And where appropriate, their self-beliefs, hopefully, are increasing.

Do you get a lot of flack for this kind of gender research?

I study perceived intelligence. I don’t research whether gender differences in intelligence are innate. That always sparks controversy. But anytime you talk about intelligence and gender, people will have strong feelings about it. Look what happened to [Larry] Summers of Harvard [the former president of the university was lambasted for suggesting that women are underrepresented in the sciences at least partly due to inherent differences in intellectual ability between the sexes]. I just let the data speak for itself. Nonetheless, sometimes I think you have to be stupid, brave or just plain naive to work in this area.

OOM: I think what he means is that if you combine the IQ of all of his accounts, it adds up to five points higher than the average woman.

Csar: That doesn’t prove that men are smarter than women, only that more men deviate from the mean than women.

I would like to disregard all your studies, but everything in this paragraph

Why are there twice as many men with an IQ of 125 as there are women? Why are there 5.5 times as many men with an IQ of 155 as there are women? Why at the near-genius level brilliant men outnumber brilliant women by 8 to one? Why at or above the 99.9th percentile there are about 15 times more males?

is STILL part and parcel of selected studies. And there are different studies that do not support these findings. And I still am not interested fighting that battle with you.

So why don’t you disregard all the studies you’ve seen and explain what basis you have for thinking men are more intelligent than women? And withing that answer, please have the courtesy to address this:

I think that this is what we really should be arguing: does your motivation in all of this have to do with the roles of men and women in Yiddishkeit? If that is the case, why do you have to insist that men are “smarter”? Hahsem created men and women differently to fulfill different roles. If you say the difference is intrinsic in intelligence – even a man and woman of the same intelligence are still different. And a woman he is more intelligent than the average man still can’t fulfill a man’s role. And unquestionably, if Hashem wanted men to be unequivocably “smarter” than women, He could have made it so. Why can’t you just accept that Hashem’s motivation (kaviyachol) is whatever it is, and can’t be reconciled to your own understanding? I think most women are able to do this…so why can’t you?

P.S. Before you spruce your up vocabulary, you might want to work on your topic headings. Try googling “capitalization in titles,” and find a result that references the Chicago Manual of Style. I think this one is okay, but it will probably make it harder for me to spot your multiple identities in the future, so I suggest you go for it.

The IQ test until very recently was entirely irrelevant. The early IQ tests did not judge intelligence. “What is Smith & Wesson a popular brand of?” was a question on the original IQ test.

Women used guns in the wild west, too.

I think that during many of the testing years, women were brought up to believe that it is unladylike to appear smarter than a man, so they played dumb. They might have done the same in school, deliberately lowering their test scores, in order to not appear superior to the boys they were trying to impress. Though this may sound simplistic, it is not untrue.