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."

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The good professor

[Infonaut]

It seems he's not a stranger to controversy:

The professor has caused outrage in the past with claims that white people are more intelligent than blacks and that criminal traits are genetically inherited.

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Re:Mod parent

[mc6809e]

Yeah, especially after RFTA'ing.. you really just wanna piss on the head of this guy. He also claims that White people are more intellegent than black...

Take a look at Wikipedia's entry on race and intelligence.

There might be some truth to it.

But none of that means people should discriminate, of course. Everyone needs to be given a chance. Just don't expect equal outcomes.

Eight types of intelligence

[Mandrel]

There's also Howard Gardner's eight types of intelligence.

1. Verbal-Linguistic -- The ability to use words and language
2. Logical-Mathematical -- The capacity for inductive and deductive thinking and reasoning, as well as the use of numbers and the recognition of abstract patterns
3. Visual-Spatial -- The ability to visualize objects and spatial dimensions, and create internal images and pictures
4. Body-Kinesthetic -- The wisdom of the body and the ability to control physical motion
5. Musical-Rhythmic -- The ability to recognize tonal patterns and sounds, as well as a sensitivity to rhythms and beats
6. Interpersonal -- The capacity for person-to-person communications and relationships
7. Intrapersonal -- The spiritual, inner states of being, self-reflection, and awareness
8. Naturalistic -- The ability to discern patterns in nature

Re:EQ (emotional intelligence)

[k98sven]

"some people" are mostly psychologists out to sell books.

IQ is a load of bunk. So is EQ. The whole notion of what we call human intelligence can be described in one, two or even 10 simple, easily quantified parameters is stupid and unscientific.

The idea that emotion and intelligence (or: Sense and Sensibility) are two distinct things is antique philosophical claptrap, with little justification in reality.

Results in neurology (a real science, as opposed to most psychology) indicate that not only are these things nondistinct, but rather that human emotions provide the foundation for what we call 'intelligence', even of the abstract kind.
Read, for instance Descartes' Error, by Antonio Damasio.

Re:Oh boy...

[thogard]

In general male bell curves are wider than women's. Its true of height, weight, IQ, most diseases. It also appears to be true of others things such as the ability drive (most race car drivers are men and the people with the worst driving records are almost always men). Women tend to have much better language skills on average than men but the most of the best writers are male and in modern countries most of the few illiterate tend to be male as well.

It has to be something about instability of that Y chromosome. The X seems to be much more stable.

Yeah, whatever...

[Goonie]

This is the same guy who published a book which claimed that differences in GDP were explainable in terms of the differences in mean IQ between countries, using data that claimed that the average IQ in Equatorial Guinea was 59.

While I'm sure the average Equatorial Guinean is poorly educated and might well have received insufficient iodine as a child, that figure is so insanely low (more than 2.7 standard deviations below the global mean of 100) as to fail the laugh test.

Re:Let me be the 1st

[Nimloth]

You guys with mod points need to read the thread or article before using them... Half the comments here talk about how the author of this research is the same guy who concluded that white people were smarter than black people, and that lighter-colored black people were smarter than darker-colored black people.

So in conclusion -- according to him -- blacks and women are dumb. Caucasian males is the way to go.

Re:History, people, history

[CAIMLAS]

Sorry, this is relevant in the context of this person claiming to have been denied the vote, how?

Unless she is over 100 years old or so, she's full of shit. She hasn't been denied a damn thing; in fact, if she's under 30 or so, chances are she's gotten more opportunity than most males due to female-specific scholarships and affirmative action.

How do you know this?

[Hideyoshi]

Because a charlatan like Richard Lynn told you so? Have you ever even been to Africa? Some eugenicist quack without any knowledge of a single African language invents numbers out of whole cloth through "geographical averaging" [sic], chooses to ignore or downplay the Flynn Effect as it suits him, compares incomparable datasets separated by decades, uses tiny samples to stand in for entire countries, and just because the results match the racial prejudices of morons like you, it's simply eaten up uncritically. Unlike you, I've actually spent lots of time in Africa, and I know for a fact that the average person I've met in my time there was no less intelligent than the average European or white American, especially when spoken to in his or her own language. Your crap about "pure" blacks and "interbreeding" (as if people of different colors were different species) only says just how far gone you are in Nazi thinking.