Why Are Men More Intelligent Than Women?

I never thought women were dumb. But then I read this thread where they are actually bothering to argue about it.

Whats the big Deal?

It’s pretty sad that the secular and certain parts of the religous world have basically become captive to a feminist ideology.

Nevermind the facts on the ground that feminism has basically destroyed the family unit as well as led to the unfortunate situation where women now demonstrate their right to show no self-respec to themselves.

One of the core tragedies of feminism is that it seems to feel that men are better then women and had more fulfilling lives then women and thierfore it is a “womens right” to be the same as a man.

Judaisim teaches that men and women are not just physically different rather they are intrinsically different and each play seperate and distinct roles that together complete the picture.

As such the male brain is wired for the male purpose in life, to enable the male to accomplish the male purpose of life.

The female brain is different as it is wired to enable the female to accomplish the female purpose in life.

Hence men think logically as they are required to learn and fill other logical roles while women hink emotionally as the amazing womanly ability to think emotianally enables her to feel the needs of her family in a way that logic alone cannot.

Hence an iq test has absolutley no real bearing on matters at all.

That statement had to be made by a man. And it is not such an intelligent statement. The real intelligence are from the ones who lets the others feel they are more intelligent.

women have always had to hide their intelligence, a lot of men are nervous of clever women. In some societies women are taught ot appear submissive to make men feel superior, instead of openly showing their intellect a lot of women sadly have learnt to manipulate things in a subtle way.

As for Jews and intelligence, one of my favourite Americans, Mark Twain was a big admirer and recognised the Jewish intellect and power of resilience.

@Oomiss: Exactly what my mother taught me……

OOM +1,000,000

Why would you think that being a bit less smart than someone else is demeaning?

Would anyone find it demeaning to be told that Rav Moshe Feinstein (or, l’havdil, Albert Einstein) is smarter than them?

wanderingchana: lol thanks. ^_^

Sam: I disagree. Especially if it is true. Or even if it is arguably so. Say someone argued Asians are more intelligent than Africans. I believe that is factual. Someone else can reasonably disagree. Nevertheless, no one should delegitamize the argument or discussion.

If you want to say that R’Moshe Zt”l or EVEN S.Hawking are smarter than I, I can totally live with that. But when you apply the same statement as a generality to half of the population, I have to question the integrity of the so-called statistics and who their compilers are.

I think anybody believing this theory has to have their head tested. There are so much more intelligent women then men. Women don’t tend to brag, act arrogantly or even seek fame anywhere as much as men. Its the way Hashem made it, the men thrive on fame, are motivated by it, without it most men wouldn’t do a thing. Its not for nothing that you don’t see much women being leaders in klal yisroel, women don’t need this element to thrive, their much happier to do it in quieter, more constructive ways.

Actually there are studies that show a woman’s brain shrinks during pregnancy. I guess due to hormones. But I always thought that was the case anyways, when I started forgetting everything when Pregnant. I think it grows back though. I dont know. Like its just temporary.

The op made a very big assumption – namely that higher iq = more intelligent.

tahini -“As for Jews and intelligence, one of my favourite Americans, Mark Twain was a big admirer and recognised the Jewish intellect and power of resilience.”

He must have been talking about Jewish males. I never heard of a guy NAMED Mark Twain.

@Csar iq places a disproportional weight on certain areas of intelligence. statisticians tend to like iq and most others ie psychologists and scientists tend to think it is not nearly as good of a metric as the general populace thinks it is. IQ measures something and it seems to do that reliably but to say it measures overall intelligence is largely unsupported by modern science. I do not know what tools are out as this is not my field so i cant give a definitive answer as to which test might be better.

First of all many statistics are skewed due to bias.

Second: Men are more time to pursue more education than women since it’s more important for women to take care of their families then studying to gain more knowledge that they don’t need. Of course, if they can do both, or they don’t have children, and they want to pursue more knowledge, then they should.

Third: as everyone said, IQ do not necessarily acurately rate a person’s intelligence.

Abe Cohen: If kids in a classroom ware made up of two different nationalities – 50% each, and a teacher came in and said kids from one of those nationalies is smarter than the other kids, that would be an insult. Telling the class one kid from the whole class is the smartest, and s/he clearly is, most wouldn’t be insulted, maybe a bit jealous, but it’s not demeaning – except for those students are are very smart too.

And now according to the latest testing women have actually overtaken men in IQ scores.

Can’t say i know much about the topic at hand. (Lack of intelligence?)

But after reading, or trying to get through some of the posts, one thing becomes clear to me: Not convinced one way or the other about how intelligent your average lady is, but women DEFINITELY have 9 kavim of speech.

As opposed to, for instance, poppa bar abba & MCP (are you both men?) who can sum up the results of all their research in one concise sentence.

@yekke2 i can elaborate more but there is a very simple answer – no

@shlishi the disparity between men’s and women’s results in the iq tests have been decreasing over the years so this is not as much of an “anomaly” as people would like to believe.

Other than the anomaly of that still unreleased study by some New Zeland professor that you referenced, all the previous studies have shown a disparity of IQ between men and women, with men consistently higher with a stable differential.

hmmm. The latest studies show women’s IQs to be about 5 points higher than men’s. (maybe you all have been reading the news from right to left!)

Think about it this way: if someone were to raise 30 boys and 30 girls and teach them the exact same things (in the same way) for their entire life, give them tests and find out their IQ…. Could you really say that the boys are smarter? I think not!

One may only be able to say that guys know physics or calculus or whatever because they (wanted to and) learned it, but a girl has the same brain capabilities and can learn/retain as much knowledge as any man. (if not more.) No matter how many studies are done, no one can actually generalize and say for sure that one gender is smarter or dumber than another.

And even if some men were smarter in one area, woman are smarter in the other.

BTW the professors were male. Find me a female proffesor that will prove her gender is dumb!

You may want to google this

“Women Beat Men on IQ Tests For First Time”