Male Brains, Female Brains
Posted by: Derek in Be 1 of The 3 Wise Men, Bliss In Your Life, Be The Vibrant WomanMen measure twice as likely as women to be in the top or lower ten percent of the intelligence tiers.
Males may the smarter and the dumber gender. A new University of Edinburgh study measured the intelligence of 2,500 males and females. They did not find an overall difference in average intelligence between males and females.
What they did find was more stability of the intelligence averages among women. Whereas there was a wider range of intelligence among men. Men were twice as likely as women to be in the top or lower ten percent of the intelligence tiers.
Further research will surely come out of this. But for women in particular and for us all, it does make it easier to understand why it is only that lower tier of men who think eye gouging in the Three Stooges is hilarious. And next door a young Albert Einstein is trying to explain to his wife his idea about how light might bend while she makes dinner.
The President of Harvard had to resign because he made a generalization about male brains being more suited to the sciences. This study refines with further science that says that is not so much the point: men may sweep up higher and sink lower in their cranial capacities. Let all train to their level of skills and that is how education should evolve.
Many more women now are becoming doctors and we think that is an excellent evolution as women have superior nurturing and communication skills and the old white doctors who think they are god are retiring. Almost no new female doctor will likely want to sit around and laugh while the Three Stooges poke fingers in eyes, and we think that is a good thing. Medicine needs brilliant caring, hard science needs genius.
And if most Science Nobel Prizes go to males, that may be God’s way of making up for the sad fact that most jails are jammed with males, all who likely think the Three Stooges are really funny.
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