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Is this a clever thing to say about women's IQ?
By Tony Halpin, Education Editor
HALF the population will dismiss this story, but a study claims that the cleverest people are much more likely to be men than women.
Men are more intelligent than women by about five IQ points on average, making them better suited for “tasks of high complexity”, according to the authors of a paper due to be published in the British Journal of Psychology.
Genetic differences in intelligence between the sexes helped to explain why many more men than women won Nobel Prizes or became chess grandmasters, the study by Paul Irwing and Professor Richard Lynn concluded.
They showed that men outnumbered women in increasing numbers as intelligence levels rise. There were twice as many with IQ scores of 125, a level typical for people with first-class degrees.
When scores rose to 155, a level associated with genius, there were 5.5 men for every woman.
Dr Irwing, a senior lecturer in organisational psychology at Manchester University, said that he was uncomfortable with the findings. But he added that the evidence was clear despite the insistence of many academics that there were “no meaningful sex differences” in levels of intelligence.
“For personal reasons I would like to believe that men and women are equal, and broadly that’s true. But over a period of time the evidence in favour of biological factors has become stronger and stronger,” he said.
“I have been dragged in a direction that I don’t particularly like, but it would be sensible if the debate was based on what we pretty much know to be the case.”
The findings from the study involving 24,000 students will intensify a battle of the sexes that was triggered last week by Michael Buerk, the BBC newscaster, who complained that “life is now being lived according to women’s rules”. He said that men had been reduced to little more than sperm-donors because of the female domin- ance of society.
Professor Lynn, a Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Ulster, is no stranger to inflammatory conclusions as the author of a number of publications arguing that there are differences in intelligence between racial groups.
He published a controversial study in 2003 that identified a clear correlation between the levels of prosperity in 60 countries and the average IQ of their populations.
Professor Lynn argued in a letter to The Psychologist this month that the differences between the sexes were explained by a link between IQ and brain size. He said: “Men have larger brains than women by about 10 per cent and larger brains confer greater brain power, so men must necessarily be on average more intelligent than women.”
phase PH is going through at the moment. 
article said:
“Men have larger brains than women by about 10 per cent and larger brains confer greater brain power, so men must necessarily be on average more intelligent than women.”
Neanderthal man also had a larger brain than humans and look where that got him. And this is mostly to do with IQ scores which are notorius for being difficult to draw proper comparisons.
Still why is there this need to compete with one another? Women and men are different and tend to do better at different things, no mystery stop trying to put a square peg in a round hole.
r988 said:
“Men have larger brains than women by about 10 per cent and larger brains confer greater brain power, so men must necessarily be on average more intelligent than women.”
Neanderthal man also had a larger brain than humans and look where that got him. And this is mostly to do with IQ scores which are notorius for being difficult to draw proper comparisons.
Still why is there this need to compete with one another? Women and men are different and tend to do better at different things, no mystery stop trying to put a square peg in a round hole.
And there goes another Non-pc giggle post down the drain!
andy mac said:
article said:
“Men have larger brains than women by about 10 per cent and larger brains confer greater brain power, so men must necessarily be on average more intelligent than women.”
Neanderthal man also had a larger brain than humans and look where that got him. And this is mostly to do with IQ scores which are notorius for being difficult to draw proper comparisons.
Still why is there this need to compete with one another? Women and men are different and tend to do better at different things, no mystery stop trying to put a square peg in a round hole.
And there goes another Non-pc giggle post down the drain!
Well its not fun unless someone complains and since noone else has I felt obligated
I just can't help arguing, I sometimes like to take the other side just try out a different point of view 
I'm suprised none of the women have replied, then again maybe they aren't clever enough
JagLover said:
Professor Lynn argued in a letter to The Psychologist this month that the differences between the sexes were explained by a link between IQ and brain size. He said: “Men have larger brains than women by about 10 per cent and larger brains confer greater brain power, so men must necessarily be on average more intelligent than women.”
Size ist not everything - a cow has a bigger brain than a human
So where ist Nobel Moo Winner. Though did hear police in Colombia (MEN of course
locked a cow in police cell for Jay-walking und refusing to answer questions with anything other than 
"M-M-M-OOOOOOOH!" 
Intersting. I can't find the stuff, but I remember that donkey's years ago there was research that showed that the "bell curve" for womens IQs was taller than the mens curve which was much flatter. What this implied was than women tended en masse to be closer to average IQ whereas there were more men with very high AND very low IQs than women. So while this chap's findings may well be true(as far as IQs go of course, which is contentious at best), the stuff I recall could be used to produce the headline:
"More really stupid men than women" as well!
And this research as reported seems only to have looked at average up
Prof Beard
"More really stupid men than women" as well!
And this research as reported seems only to have looked at average up
Prof Beard
Prof Beard said:
Intersting. I can't find the stuff, but I remember that donkey's years ago there was research that showed that the "bell curve" for womens IQs was taller than the mens curve which was much flatter. What this implied was than women tended en masse to be closer to average IQ whereas there were more men with very high AND very low IQs than women. So while this chap's findings may well be true(as far as IQs go of course, which is contentious at best), the stuff I recall could be used to produce the headline:
I remember something vaguely similar, ie that the median woman had the same intelligence as the median man, but that there were alot more very intelligent men than there were very intelligent women.
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