Reaction to this article? (M vs F intelligence)

[swagmaster420x]

https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/10/02/sorry-girls-but-the-smartest-people-in-the-world-are-all-men/

The author this article is an intentionally aggravating personality. Does anyone have some thoughts on what he has to say in this piece?

To give a brief taste; he relates the apparently greater variability in IQ score for males to the notion that biologically, men are much more prone to being geniuses than women.

I have to say, I disagree and still think that much can be explained by social / nurture factors. what do you make of the data presented?

[rubinsteinmad]

https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/10/02/sorry-girls-but-the-smartest-people-in-the-world-are-all-men/

The author this article is an intentionally aggravating personality. Does anyone have some thoughts on what he has to say in this piece?

To give a brief taste; he relates the apparently greater variability in IQ score for males to the notion that biologically, men are much more prone to being geniuses than women.

I have to say, I disagree and still think that much can be explained by social / nurture factors. what do you make of the data presented?

I think most of the famous smart-people are men, but I'm not sure. Mabe its because in history, women were discouraged from doing educated stuff; if they did, their results wouldn't be considered by many people.

[swagmaster420x]

I think most of the famous smart-people are men, but I'm not sure. Mabe its because in history, women were discouraged from doing educated stuff; if they did, their results wouldn't be considered by many people.

That is a good point (see Emmy Noether), but how would you say this relates to the IQ test statistics?

[rubinsteinmad]

That is a good point (see Emmy Noether), but how would you say this relates to the IQ test statistics?

Dude I'm a sevvie, and I already publicly admitted to the O Great PianoStreet Member that I'm dumb for my age. What do you expect of me?

[swagmaster420x]

O Great PianoStreet Member

Nice, and no you're not

[indianajo]

My Mother was probably more intelligent than my Dad, but she never took an intelligence test.  His Army Otis score was 156. 
She was shock graduated from high school at 15 with no algebra geometry or higher math at all.  There was a war on, they told her.  She was admitted to osteopathic medical school then, but her Mother wouldn't mortgage the house to pay for it.  Why the US Army wouldn't pay for her medical education probably has to do with her gender, I imagine.  She took secretarial school, worked as that for some years, bid in from secretary to the bank President to a computer programmer training program (cobol), and worked at that several years before retiring. 
So I don't see intelligence as gender linked, but life experience is. 

[pianoman1233]

I have to say, I disagree and still think that much can be explained by social / nurture factors. what do you make of the data presented?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_sex_differences

[swagmaster420x]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_sex_differences

This is kind of depressing, because it does lend itself to showing a general disparity in the brains of the sexes.

[schumaniac]

This is kind of depressing, because it does lend itself to showing a general disparity in the brains of the sexes.

Yeah and it seems like one of the "flakier" Wikipedia articles...

[swagmaster420x]

Yeah and it seems like one of the "flakier" Wikipedia articles...

I agreee