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'Women talk, men should listen'
Submitted by anthony on Fri, 2012-03-16 03:40
Article here. Excerpt:
'Mind, I don’t unequivocally state we are the smarter of the species. I only repeat a question posed in Foreign Service applications. Question: “Do you know what they call anybody with an IQ of 80 in Slobbovia?” Answer: “Mr. President.”
I’d never deign to think males are dim. I only wonder why big-time executives jog a half-hour for exercise then take the elevator up to the second floor.
Understand, men may complain. Like saying the wife is a lousy driver. Like: “If she were an Arab, she’d come home with a dented camel.”
But, the National Academy of Sciences with MRIs, graphs, charts, images, brain scans and maybe playing “Pin the Tail on the Donkey” has decreed that women’s brains are wired more keenly than those belonging to the manly persuasions.'
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Miserable piece of "work"
If you have to write things like this, God knows you must feel pretty $hitty about yourself. Anyway, the writing constitutes nothing funny and there is no denying she wrote it and so must take the heat for it, though I do feel sorry (in a way) for anyone like her. Contact info:
Letters to the Editor: letters-at-nypost.com
More on this "writer": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Adams
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What a badly written article. Perhaps her brain's wiring needs some improvements...
And I couldn't miss the irony, with someone using technologies invented and developed by men writing an article to mock men.
I couldn't help but leave a comment.
Lol, for a woman who's so much smarter than men, I find it hilarious that you don't even cite any sources, and the ones that you allude to are very vague. "A google search shows..." one could use this to try to back up anything. Just because you can find something online via google, doesn't mean it's correct. I.e "A google search shows that Zenu is coming back to take our souls!" This type of writing would be scoffed at in academia.
As for women starting businesses up at twice the rate of men; it may have something to do with the fact that there are more than five times as many scholarships out there for women than there are for men, and many more business grants and loans are available to women just for being female.
By the by, according to my Psyc textbook "Psychology: from Inquiry to Understanding", while women have highter IQs on average, the curve for men's IQs is wider. This means that men are actually likelier to have IQs among the top 2%, and top the bell curve. Sorry to disappoint you. Damn, and I actually have a University-credible source to cite to back it up.
Higher IQs?
According to everything I've read on the matter men outscore women on average by 2-4 points. The overall curve for men is wider, with more men than women at both extremes, but that's the first I've read that says women score higher than men.
You're Right
Now that I think of it, I interpreted the information incorrectly. I mixed up more women with average IQs with a higher IQ for the average woman. Overall, men and women's average IQs are about equal, as the peaks for both curves are so close together, they nearly coincide at the same point. Thanks for setting me straight, sirprince.
No worries
My intention wasn't to "set you straight", I was simply assuming you had access to a different academic source that demonstrated women have higher IQs, as compared to others that said the opposite.
In fact, you probably have more expertise on the issue than I do, and I was eager to know what sources you had access to and how they differed to anything else I may have read.
Males and females probably do score equally overall; the better school grades gained by girls are probably due to how schools are more geared to girls' learning styles than boys'.