Who is smarter, Men/Women ?


Who is smarter, is it Men or Women ?  

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  1. 1. Who is smarter, is it Men or Women ?

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Women and men have pretty much exactly the same brains. The only things that are different are how they're treated by society, and what they apply those brains to. That being said, I'd like to take this moment to parrot Trance.

That is entirely false. There are significant differences, which is why men are better at certain things and women are better at other things.

As a whole, I would say men have the slight edge at academics, for one.

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who is smarter? shouldn't that be who are smarter?

Women are not smarter lol... Just choose any given profession that requires over 4 years of the highest education -- doctors, lawyers, scientists, engineers, etc... Then choose any given vicinity -- your town, your country, the entire planet. Then go look at the top 500 individuals who practice this profession, and compare the number of men to the number of women.

Edit: By God, some people here sure are overly-whipped by the world's turn to equal rights. I understand you want to be nice, and I understand that most everyone has experience with both very smart and very stupid people of both sexes. But men are mentally superior, no different than they are physically superior.

What irritating arguments I see posted below -- "women are smarter because they can seduce men." "women are smarter because they can give birth." None of those things make women smarter... This is about who would calculate the first 100 digits of pie faster, not about who would convince who to paint the fence faster... Honestly, I thought this was a serious discussion about who of the sexes, on avarage, has more scientific brain power. And men win that perticular contest.

you sir, are an ass.

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well, considering that probably over 90% of the forum's population consist of males, i would assume that there would be a bias in the results

90%.. ha yeah right.. I would say 98-99%

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They are both equal, really. Women are superior at some things, and so are men. But, personally, I believe women can be smarter--they know how to express themselves, while men are limited to clugging down bottles of beer and making remarks at how "***" the football player is.

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Women are not smarter lol... Just choose any given profession that requires over 4 years of the highest education -- doctors, lawyers, scientists, engineers, etc... Then choose any given vicinity -- your town, your country, the entire planet. Then go look at the top 500 individuals who practice this profession, and compare the number of men to the number of women.

This is the most ignorant idea I have ever heard of. Don't you think there is a lot of bias in the professional, academic, and scientific communities? Might there be some biological differences that contributes to this discrepancy? Maybe (saying yes to this got Harvard's president in lots of trouble).

I'll speak for the medical profession: Many medical schools are now about 50-50 men to women (ours has more women than men), so in the future there will be more balance and your argument will die. One problem that still exists is that old-school men are the ones who decide who gets into certain residencies. This is why surgical specialties are still predominantly male today and will continue to be for some time.

I'm sure there are other socioeconomic reasons for why there are more men in certain fields. I'll bet biological capability has very little or nothing to do with it.

Come back when you've got something intelligent to say.

The inherent problem with this debate is that measuring "smarts" is subjective. There is no concrete way of defining it. This thread does nothing but bring out the cavemen and bigots. Here's to regression. :pint:

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How in hell can u say men are smarter when beeing a man is the definition of dumb ... can u as a guy understand a woman what she wants or needs, can u take care of her , what would happen if women would not exist? ... (same goes for women ... as in what would happen if men would not exist) this has no answer but since she carries the boy and/or girl inside her, i would safelly bet that she is more intuitive and more life trained than any man ... besides if i remember corectly is us who beg forgiveness and or ask in marriage and or cry every time we scratch our finger in our noze (sarcasm) ... so yeah ... my 2 cents on this topic, and for any girls here this is a good oportunity to tell us guys what's up because aparently in our small little minds full of sexual thoughts we forget how fragile we are ... (cry to mommy boys, go cry to mommy) ...

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*Resists obvious oppurtunity to point something out to previous poster*

Well please do. The suspense is too much. :rolleyes:

I've heard that men are generally better at maths and spatial physics while women are generally better at multi-tasking.

Yes, that's true, but 2 points...

1) Do you really think that men perform better on these subjects simply because they are men? Or might it have to do with development, personality, attitudes toward these subjects (willingness to put effort into learning them), etc?

2) Does science performance make men "smarter?"

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I would say this: I know some very smart men... I also know some extremely dumb men. I know some very smart women. I also know some extremely dumb women.

There is your answer. Both are smart at times, both are stupid at times. Not one sex is superior to the other, and ANYONE that thinks so is really really stupid.

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If you define intelligence as being based solely on logical and spatial skills, men will probably do better.

Define it solely on emotional, artistic, language and communiction skills and women will probably do better.

This poll can not be answered except to say that one gender is not more intelligent than another.

I don't see anyone on here saying that whites are more intelligent than blacks, although most of the arguments for why men are cleverer could be applied to that.

Well who made all this technology we're witnessing nowadays ? Who wrote all the theories we learned in school ? If women came to this life alone ( without men ) they'd be living the stone age with some beautifuly empty decorated stone houses.

That's what i believe :p

If women "came to this life alone" we would have done just fine. Men have always abused their physical advantage, using it to control and oppress women. Maybe there would have been less wars without men in power.

100 years ago women were not allowed to go to university. 70 years ago 11 year old girls had to get higher scores than 11 year old boys to get into grammar school. They still got in.

Even today, Western women face discrimination and attitudes like "you aren't as clever" all the time. Men's careers get priority, while women are expected to abandon their careers to look after children or if her husband needs to move for his job.

A pretty girl will have to work extremely hard to be taken seriously because men are ruled by their penises. An ugly girl will just be totally ignored.

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In terms of "hard workingness" = men, because women focus too much on their appearances, clothes, sex, attractiveness, etc.

You are stereotyping women there. We don't ALL spend all day wondering what shade of lipstick to wear. Hard work and ability to concentrate is thought to be superior in women simply because of the way they are brought up. If you mean physical hard work, then that is obviously biological/genetic and is also nothing to do with intelligence.

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I don't see anyone on here saying that whites are more intelligent than blacks, although most of the arguments for why men are cleverer could be applied to that.

True. If you go by average IQ, whites are more intelligent than blacks.

The problem with IQ tests is that you have to define intelligence first. So what it means is according to that definition of IQ, men are, on average, smarter than women, and that whites are, on average, more intelligent than blacks.

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