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Size Does Matter... But Only in Women

Posted by Hemos on from the half-usage-full-usage dept.

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. Re:Ugggh.. annoying out of context brain percentag by CableModemSniper · · Score: 5, Informative

    Maybe one day, people will get over the x% of your brain myth. Mayber, just maybe. Here.

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  2. Not quite Re:huh? by WolfWithoutAClause · · Score: 3, Informative
    No, no, no. IQ tests doesn't measure intelligence at all. They measure your ability to perform well in IQ tests. It's just a number.

    Actually that isn't entirely correct. The idea behind IQ tests was to predict who would do well in higher education, and hence who it is worth letting in. As that, it succeeds pretty well- the correlation coefficient between IQ and academic success is something like 60% IRC.

    Extrapolating this index further to other areas works less well; I believe that high IQ scores correspond to only about a 5% increase in earnings. Probably other factors like so called 'EQ' correlate better with the other 'success' metrics.

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  3. Re:But we only need to use half our brain... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Before electrical computers, people were computers. As I understand it, the data for slide rules was calculated by house wives. Companies would use a seti like system to catch errors and cheats where several house wives worked the same problem. This may have been the first distributed computer.