The Smarter Gender ?

Discussion in 'Human Science' started by joemamaa, Jul 27, 2004.

  1. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    In many societies today as well as in the past women haven't had any rights whatsoever. Since in many circumstances women couldn't and still can't get an education because men wouldn't and won't allow them to for the men are afraid of losing their control. Power and control are two of the most wanted things to attain and without an education it has been very difficult for women to advance themselves in a male dominated world.

    Today women are getting more freedom in certain societies and are showing the men that they are equall to them in almost everything. I do hope this openess towards women grows and in more societies they allow freedom for their women wherever they may be.
     
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  3. eddymrsci Beware of the dark side Registered Senior Member

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    I agree that females use the emotion parts of their brain more, generally speaking, than males. the proof is seen in brain scans

    however the thing is not who is smarter, but what kind of standard society sets for intelligence, so if the statement in the first post is correct, that males rule most of the world, then we can say males are better suited in this society's standard, but cannnot say males are smarter in nature.
     
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  5. Facial Valued Senior Member

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    No such thing as "smarter gender."
     
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  7. Hypercane Sustained Winds at Mach One Registered Senior Member

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    By judging which is the smarter gender may seem pretty sexist.

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  8. eddymrsci Beware of the dark side Registered Senior Member

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    thank you, that's what I have been saying
     
  9. darktr00per Registered Senior Member

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    98% of geniuses to date have been male.
     
  10. Gwynt Registered Member

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    right. I wouldn't say smarter, but 'different'. Women perhaps have more spiritual/emotional intelligence and/or power. Though certainly not in every case. But to me that side of things is more important, which is why I sometimes hate the fact that I'm a guy in the first place. But still, I try to make up for it with knowledge and practice. The problem is we still have to deal with the physical world too, and it affects the other worlds, and vice versa. oh, well, I'm rambling now.
     
  11. Facial Valued Senior Member

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    Marilyn vos Savant is female.
     
  12. eM0912 Infectious Microbe Registered Senior Member

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    on here all i see is people screaming about sexism, racism, phobias...why can't a question or an opinion be just that? that's my question, can't we just talk about things without worrying about offense? there's no point in getting offended by any of this. it's ridiculous.
    males and femalse will never be equal, males rule because it is tradition and in the most unfortunate sense females need males because they are the lesser population. females need males for reproduction the same way males need females...maybe it's nothing more than that. as for intelligence it depends on what area of intelligence you're looking at with different genders
     
  13. water the sea Registered Senior Member

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    1. Because men are the physically stronger gender and they do not shy away from using physical force as an argument.

    2. Because of 1, many women simply give in and don't try to win an argument, in order to avoid physical damage.


    (Not doable on the net, mind you.)
     
  14. eM0912 Infectious Microbe Registered Senior Member

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    there's proof of lack of intelligence right there...it's all individual, no sex is cumulatively smarter because there are idiots on both sides.
     
  15. eM0912 Infectious Microbe Registered Senior Member

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    ...yes there are in the most unfortunate sense because these people degrade the image of each side. so, in essence, we are ruining our own sexist images because we are failing to see that there is no image that will satiate all.
     
  16. Naomi [oxiglycodextrosium] Registered Senior Member

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    This thread seems to exist to inflate the ego of the testosteroned gender.

    Is it any wonder it's rotted into the abysses of egotistical sexism?

    Honestly, now. Gender battles are the relics of kindergarten.

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    There is no 'smarter' gender. Intelligence is a tad too multifaceted to be compared like two numbers.
     
  17. wesmorris Nerd Overlord - we(s):1 of N Valued Senior Member

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    "smart"?

    Smart is subjective. Processing numbers faster doesn't necessarily mean you can play a piano, or resolve differences between people. To say "smart" you speak of something you value. If you value number crunching, then perhaps you could do a series of experiments acquire data to test the hypothesis. To me, the problem with that is your expression of value whereas someone else could value some other mental ability more than number crunching and call that one "smart".
     
  18. Dr Lou Natic Unnecessary Surgeon Registered Senior Member

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    em0912, you're spot on.
    I've been making that argument here for a while, you'll find they won't budge. This is the irrational PC capital of the internet

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    Oh and obviously males are smarter. What the? why is there a debate raging here? Do any of you have any grasp on history? Jesus h fuck, its not a matter of opinion.
    This girl might be smarter than that guy, but which gender is smarter? It's a no brainer.
    We all know it to, thats what upsets me about political correctness, its like everyone's agreeing with eachother on the lies they told themselves.
     
  19. ripleofdeath Registered Senior Member

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    what is the nature of learning, Vs what is the nature of perceived intellegence.
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    access and desire to obtain these.

    its like trying to judge what a milkshake might taste like when you do not know what is being added and then trying to predict the outcome.
    unless you know what goes into it you wont know what is likely to come out of it.
    hence
    definition

    the basics are fairly simple but have not been mentioned from my speed reading..
    women are nurtured to be family orientated and have a family to be recognised as of value amoung other women, men however because of the women being the one that gets pregnant and for having superior basic muscle strength and selective breeding for size, are more suited to maintain work and income while the female is hobbled by the child.
    all fairly simple
    but ofcoarse with modern technology and availible care women and men can share the early parenting making the equation only founded in religouse predjudice and shovenistic ideals held by women AND men.
    boys and girls are raised vastly differently by their own parents, and the parents are soo programmed most often that they are not aware of how vastly different they act toward each of their opposing gender children untill it is videoed and explained by a high quality developmental psychologist.
    the one child family program in china(whilst prodominent gender bias still being present in the genral population) and the cultural gender bias in india has unbalanced the gender ballance, it use-to be around 54% female but now i suspect it is allot different on a global scale.
     
  20. rel Registered Member

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    Males have larger brain and more neurons, we also use the left side more which controls logic and reason while women use right side more with emotions, feeling

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  21. eM0912 Infectious Microbe Registered Senior Member

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    what scientific evidence do you have that men have larger brains? if they do, it's evident that they don't make much use of it, since they are clearly more dependent on women. statistically in marriage that males' lifespan inscreases 10 years while the womans' decreases. so who needs the more care? females may use more emotions, but we've got men right where we want them. you need us.
     
  22. TruthSeeker Fancy Virtual Reality Monkey Valued Senior Member

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    I doubt we have larger brains. Women use regions of the brain that we pratically don't use. Not only that, but their part that connect both hemispheres is way more active then ours. In other words... they can associate feelings and reason in a much faster way...
     
  23. Dreamwalker Whatever Valued Senior Member

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    Well, as far as I know, men indeed have larger brains, but the female brain, while being smaller, houses more curves and thus their brain has a relatively high surface, and with the difference in structure, their potential is as high (or perhaps even higher/maybe smaller) than that of men. Also, they feature a faster "thinking rate" because the distances in their brain are smaller.

    So I still go along with my earlier statement, there are dumb men, but there are also dumb women. Both genders have their dropouts and bright heads. But due to our mostly male ruled society, intelligent women are not rcognized as often as males.
     

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