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Size Does Matter... But Only in Women

Frankenmoro writes "This online article at Nature notes that new research indicates that a woman's intelligence is directly related to the size of her brain. But, before you uber-male-geeks start to gloat, it may be that a woman with half your brain size has the same language processing power as you do, seeing as how you only use half of your brain to process language, and she's using it all... Lazy boy."

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  1. But we only need to use half our brain... by joto · · Score: 5, Funny
    But, before you uber-male-geeks start to gloat, it may be that a woman with half your brain size has the same language processing power as you do, seeing as how you only use half of your brain to process language, and she's using it all... Lazy boy.

    Stupid women who must use all their processing power simply to process language. With our superiour intellect, we can use the rest of our brain for more important stuff while they are struggling to understand what we said...

    Or more likely, when she talks, I'm concentrating on something else, and never listen...

    1. Re:But we only need to use half our brain... by skahshah · · Score: 2, Funny

      Damnit! I'm proving it myself.

    2. Re:But we only need to use half our brain... by gi-tux · · Score: 3, Funny

      So does this explains why men think about women more than women think about men? We have brain sitting around doing nothing too much of the time. If we could get a little better at multi-tasking, we might do more productive work by using that other portion of our brain for something besides our favorite hobby.

      Can you imagine what we could do with a Beowulf cluster of those unused brain parts working on SETI? Oops, wrong idea :-)

      1) Free software
      2) unused brains
      3) Profit

      Wrong again?

      Surely there is some use for all these unused brain cells!!!

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  2. Ahhhhh..... by WeaponOfChoice · · Score: 4, Funny

    Since I only use half my brain for language processing this must mean that I am, basically, always distracted by something else going on inside my head... This must be why I get ambushed in conversations by women capable of focusing their entire intellect on the task at hand [and so on... world's out to get me blah blah blah...

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  3. Monday Morning Joke by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny


    There were 11 people hanging onto a rope that came down from a helicopter. Ten were men and one woman. The rope was starting to fray so they all agreed that one person should let go because if they didn't the rope would break and everyone would die. No one could decide who should go so finally the woman gave a very touching speech saying how she would give up her life to save the others, because women were used to giving up things for their husbands and children, giving in to men, and that after all men were the superior sex and must be saved.

    When she finished speaking, all the men clapped.

  4. Women unite by Slashdotess · · Score: 3, Funny

    I love being a woman. I am obviously smarter than most men out there. Using an X-ray, I was able to determine my brain size to be 5 inches in diameter. With the formula, Brainpower = (diameter * radius^4 ) / 43. My brainpower is 34.402192 inches^3.

    1. Re:Women unite by dukerobinson · · Score: 2, Funny

      I agree I think the whole point is being missed here. The real equation to consider is: B * H / W = Worth as a human being. Where B is the diameter of the bust, H is the diameter of the hips, and W is the diameter of the waist, taking in to account that H must never exceed B by more than 10% for the equation to be valid. There are, of course other considerations, this being only one of the battery of physical preportions that will allow one to assess the worth of the female in question.

  5. Grrr.... by Schmelter · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wat you say? Males have half-brain?

    Schmelter angry! Schmelter smash!

  6. let me be the first to say it by Snafoo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Whoa, check out the lobes on *that* babe!

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  7. Ah! by hrieke · · Score: 3, Funny

    That might be true that men only think with half our brains, but since we're true engineers we've made use of our redunant head to assist us with some of our thinking!

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  8. Necessary Seinfeld Reference by yoink! · · Score: 3, Funny

    Jerry: Louise! That's what's doin' it. You're no longer pre-occupied with sex, so your mind is able to focus.

    George: You think?

    Jerry: Yeah. I mean, let's say this is your brain. (Holds lettuce head) Okay, from what I know about you, your brain consists of two parts: the intellect, represented here (Pulls off tiny piece of lettuce), and the part obsessed with sex. (Shows the rest of the lettuce) Now granted, you have extracted an astonishing amount from this little scrap. But with no-sex-Louise, this previously useless lump, is now functioning for the first time in its existence. (Eats tiny piece of lettuce)


    *sigh* of course the intelligence always fails at some point.


    Jerry: Where have you been? You know, you're on next.

    George: I got lost on the way over.

    Jerry: Got lost? We went to school here for three years.

    George: What are these? (Holds test tubes to his head like antennae) Take me to your leader.

    Jerry: Oh my God. You had sex. You had sex with Louise!

    George: No, the Portuguese waitress.

    Jerry: The Portuguese waitress?

    George: I calculated my odds of ever getting together with a Portuguese waitress. Mathematically, I had to do it, Jerry.


  9. In related news.. by EggplantMan · · Score: 3, Funny

    Men have been found to use half of their brain to think about sex at all times.

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  10. Re:No matter what size their brain is... by Raiford · · Score: 5, Funny
    This is absolutly the greatest topic I have seen on Slashdot for sometime and I can't really think of a thing to say. I had better go find some women to speak for me.

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  11. Re:Oh yeah? by mijok · · Score: 2, Funny

    No,no,no!!! Beer contains female hormones - it's a scientific fact. In an experiment a group of men had to drink lots of beer and they began to behave more like women: - they all became way too talkative - nothing they said made any sense - they got easily upset without any reason - none of them could drive ;)

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