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Report Claims Men More Intelligent Than Women

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the written-by-men dept.

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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  1. The good professor by Infonaut · · Score: 5, Informative
    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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  3. Eight types of intelligence by Mandrel · · Score: 5, Informative
    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
  4. Re:Oh boy... by thogard · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.