Report Claims Men More Intelligent Than Women

Jeremy Dean writes "In controversial research reported all over the place, Richard Lynn, the emeritus professor of psychology at Ulster University claims that, on average, men are more intelligent than women. Let battle commence! As the research is not yet published there's nothing more to go on than the press reports. The co-author of the study, Dr Irwing, a senior lecturer in organisational psychology at Manchester University, is apologetic about the findings. In the BBC News report he states that the paper will go on to argue that despite their disadvantage in IQ, there is evidence that women utilise their (lesser!) talents better than men. This simply begs the question of what use IQ tests are if they don't predict anything in the real world."

Comments

Re:With nothing to go on

[bakes]

I would be willing to bet that if a woman were to come up with an IQ test that women would do better at it than men.

Absolutely. They would all be questions like:

- What colour shoes go with this handbag?
- If I spend $2000 on clothes - that I wouldn't have bought anyway - just because they were on sale, how much did I save?
- Does my butt look fat in this?

I always get those wrong. Especially the last one.

PS: To any girls reading this - joking!!! joking!!

Re:Yeah, whatever...

[RoLi]

Actually most black africans have an average IQ of 70 and 59 is merely 11 points below that, so it's not that bad.

The figures for blacks in the US are different because of interbreeding (just look at Powell or Rice) and the blacks in the US are pretty much black-white mulattes, so they score about 85. In South Africa, pure blacks score also about 70 while "colored" (= mixed white/black) also score 86.