Men smarter than women, says scientist

Los Angeles: Men are smarter than women, according to a controversial new study that adds another cinder to the fiery debate over whether gender impacts general intelligence. “For 100 years there’s been a consensus among psychologists that there is no sex difference in intelligence,” said J. Philippe Rushton, a psychologist at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Recent studies, however, have raised questions about the validity of this claim, he said.

One such study showed that men have larger brains than women, a 100 gram difference after correcting for body size. Rushton found similar results in a study of gender and brain size. To determine if there was a link between gender and intelligence, and perhaps between brain size and intelligence, Rushton and a colleague analysed the SAT scores from 100,000 17- and 18-year-olds.

When Rushton and colleagues weighted each SAT question by an established general intelligence factor called the g-factor, they discovered that males surpassed females by an average of 3.6 IQ points.


The g-factor uses only the tough questions in the test. “If I tell you the last four digits of my telephone number and ask you to repeat them back to me, that’s a low g-loaded memory test,” Rushton explained. “But if I then ask you to repeat them back to me in the reverse order, that suddenly requires a tremendous amount more cognitive processing.”


The g-factor “is the active ingredient of the test,” Rushton said. “It’s the single best, most predictive part of the test.” Rushton suspects that the results are due to males having more brain tissue than females on average. “It’s a reasonable hypothesis that you need more brain tissue dedicated to processing high ‘g’ information.”

Bruce Bracken, a psychologist at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, who was not involved in the new study, said he thinks Rushton and Jackson make a convincing argument for the sample they used. “The difference appears to be real,” Bracken said. But he questions the team’s conclusions. “I believe that the differences probably lie in the variables they hadn’t considered.”

One plausible explanation is that more females than males decide to go to college and thus take the SAT test. The study did in fact include about 10,000 more females than males. A more reliable study, he said, would be to match each male with a very similar female and then compare the results. The debate goes on.

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intresting topic, Kartoos.

I would say that both men and women r the same in this. Its true that men get things faster then women do but that does not mean they are more successful. once a lady gets everything in her head then they can do anything and everything. thats y all i can say is that men and women r equal in every way.

Men are smarter than women, huh???

Okay lets consider this for a second, but dont forget that still men have to bow their heads infront of women coz men's existance is becoz of women.

I think such subjects should not come here in debate section its a waste of time in debating.

agree with u, Ali.

i think there isnt a perfect answer to this and can never be ,

no comments.

men are sometimes smarter because look at the facts most of the people in charge of things are men. weather it be politics or industry. women can go crazy sometimes wen its that time of the month(u know wat im talking about).

not to say that there not good at anything.
women are smarter then men in other aspects of things.
but all im saying is that men are smarter at more things