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(Sorry if its been done before, new to the boards). Which brain is smarter, the males or females?

I choose male for my sake.

Mine. Next question.

Right you are.

Next Question:

Who shall we evict from the thread?

I pick Cabra.....lol, j/k

Right you are.

Next Question:

Who shall we evict from the thread?

I pick Cabra.....lol, j/k

*lol

Why? Too sophisticated for you? ;)

Which brain is smarter, the males or females?

For being male and asking the question in the first place, you've just single handedly proven that it's the female.

*lol

Why? Too sophisticated for you? ;)


yes, whatever that means.

For being male and asking the question in the first place, you've just single handedly proven that it's the female.

THE FEMALE BODY ROCKS!!!!!

Males...I've met more smart males than smart females.

yes, whatever that means.

Lol. nice to have a friendly thread.

Male since im a sexist bastard.

Males...I've met more smart males than smart females.

Considering this is an internet forum and therefore assuming that you are the average online nerd, I'm not the least bit surprised by that.

Do the maths and compare the averages, though. :p

im 13....not a nerd. i wish i was tho

Hume was male. Voltaire was female.

I call a tie.

The smartest and dumbest brains both belong to males.

The average woman's brain is better than the average man's brain.

I think males have more retards and geniouses. Females are smarter on an avergae scale.

Probably totally equal when you average it out between the genders.

But if you factor in ability to communicate - males. By far.

Women are *shite* at communicating in a clear, not-full-of-passive-agressive-or-incomplete language.

And I should know, being a girl, and spending years trying to communicate with them to satisfy 'society'. Now I hang out almost exclusively with math nerds, and *Lord* is communicating easier...

Males are either great or grot
Women are usually pretty good, with some being great also

Women ftw!


Oh - what about transexuals?

(Sorry if its been done before, new to the boards). Which brain is smarter, the males or females?

I choose male for my sake.

Poll! Where is the poll? :confused:

(Sorry if its been done before, new to the boards). Which brain is smarter, the males or females?

I choose male for my sake.
I'm going to have say female, as most of my gender are idiots (even more so than females).

Probably totally equal when you average it out between the genders.

But if you factor in ability to communicate - males. By far.

Women are *shite* at communicating in a clear, not-full-of-passive-agressive-or-incomplete language.

And I should know, being a girl, and spending years trying to communicate with them to satisfy 'society'. Now I hang out almost exclusively with math nerds, and *Lord* is communicating easier...

You must have got something wrong then... I'm female, went to an all girls' school, and the one thing the never ceases to amaze me is how men seem to struggle with the mere concept of using verbal language to express more complex matters. Now, English is not my first language, so I might come across a bit uncouth here, but my linguistical and phonetic research actually show women to not only have a 30% larger active vocabulary but also a more flexible approach to adjusting to the level of communication going on around them.
In addition to that, women not only use communication to purvey information and messages (which would be the primary function, and indeed the only function for most male communication), but to establish social bonds and status.

Poll! Where is the poll? :confused:
He doesn't want to see blokes get annihilated in the poll, which is fair enough :)

(Sorry if its been done before, new to the boards). Which brain is smarter, the males or females?

I choose male for my sake.

Left handed people because we are in our right mind. :p

Left handed people because we are in our right mind. :p

Wow... I must have a super-brain then. I'm a left-handed female :D

Wow... I must have a super-brain then. I'm a left-handed female :D
Betcha can't lick your own elbow though. :-)

Betcha can't lick your own elbow though. :-)

I said super-brain, not super-tongue... :p

Betcha can't lick your own elbow though. :-)
I know someone who can :p

I'd have to say there is no rule. There are geniuses and dumbasses on both sides, and always will be. Which is why, instead of asking such questions as these, scientists should be in China, finding that butterfly that causes all these hurricanes.

You must have got something wrong then... I'm female, went to an all girls' school, and the one thing the never ceases to amaze me is how men seem to struggle with the mere concept of using verbal language to express more complex matters. Now, English is not my first language, so I might come across a bit uncouth here, but my linguistical and phonetic research actually show women to not only have a 30% larger active vocabulary but also a more flexible approach to adjusting to the level of communication going on around them.
In addition to that, women not only use communication to purvey information and messages (which would be the primary function, and indeed the only function for most male communication), but to establish social bonds and status.

dammit, i don't got that :(
i spent like 5 minutes yesterday trying to remember the word 'table'
*cries*

i think that men and women would have to be equal overall, since males tend to find some things easier to grasp,and women other thing. 'smart' is a very general word

I know someone who can :p
Do they have very short arms?

I SAY, MEN GOT BIGGER BRAINS.

I'm female.

agreed

Disagreed. Like I said, both genders have geniuses and dumbasses.

(Sorry if its been done before, new to the boards). Which brain is smarter, the males or females?

I choose male for my sake.
The only possible answer for us married folks is "My better half."

Males...I've met more smart males than smart females.
I've met more dumb males than females.


In general though, men and women have roughly the same average IQ, but men have a larger range, so there are more geniuses, but also a lot more mentally challenged.


But then I can multitask better, so I'm voting that the female brain is better. :p

Which brain is smarter, the males or females?
Yes.

since men tend to think with the SMALLER of their heads, it must be women who have better brains... ;)

(Sorry if its been done before, new to the boards). Which brain is smarter, the males or females?

I choose male for my sake.

Depends on what you're doing.

Men, generally, are better at focusing on one thing, to the exclusion of everything around them. They're better at linear thinking, math (requires linear thinking) etc.

Women, generally, are better at multi-tasking (doing several things at once), intuitive thinking, languages.

There are exceptions on both sides.

Off-hand, I'd say there's no superior brain, just differently wired. Of course women, in general, are quicker on the uptake and wittier than men so, on that basis - women are better.

The answer is, ofcourse, female dolphins.

I'd have to say there is no rule. There are geniuses and dumbasses on both sides, and always will be. Which is why, instead of asking such questions as these, scientists should be in China, finding that butterfly that causes all these hurricanes.

First time I've laughed out loud at anything remotely connected to Chaos Theory.

Well I've only ever been able to study the intelligence of my immediate family, I'll assume that they aren't anything to go by because I really doubt/hope that the average female intelligence level is higher than that.

im going to say female

*hoping to score some fluffles from some of the beautiful females*;)

Oh - what about transexuals?

What about them?

(Sorry if its been done before, new to the boards). Which brain is smarter, the males or females?

I choose male for my sake.

Men and Women are intelligent in different ways. I dont think either is better.

However, Women can multi taks a heck of lot better then men.

:D

im going to say female

*hoping to score some fluffles from some of the beautiful females*;)

Well, until the beautiful females arrive, I'll fluffle you ;)

:fluffle:

im going to say female

*hoping to score some fluffles from some of the beautiful females*;)

here have a fluffle :fluffle:

the beautiful ones will be along shortly

Neither. Anyone who thinks that one gender is intrinsically "smarter" than the other is silly. Now, if you want to compare specific aspects of intelligence, we could have a discussion. :)

Neither. Anyone who thinks that one gender is intrinsically "smarter" than the other is silly. Now, if you want to compare specific aspects of intelligence, we could have a discussion. :)

Show Off :p

;)

It's not a question of which sex is smarter, but what they're smarter in. Males tend to do better in mEth, engineering, and chemistry/physics. That doesn't mean that women can't do well in these, they just don't as much as guys for one reason or another.





















































































I like things

Illithids.

since men tend to think with the SMALLER of their heads, it must be women who have better brains... ;)

They say two heads are better than one ;).

From what I've read and haven't seen soundly debunked, I'm going to have to agree that:

1. Men and women have similar averages, but men have larger ranges. This is true of a lot of things besides intelligence (although some things like physical strength or childbearing capacity just don't have the same average), since men have only one X chromosome and thus express more X-recessive characteristics, both positive and negative (as well as being the only ones to express Y-characteristics).

2. There does seem to be a difference favouring linguistic ability/multitasking for females and linear/spatial thinking and focus for males. NOT in math in general, just as it applies to spatial thinking.

I've never seen anything saying that women have more difficulty excelling at chemistry, physics, and engineering; in fact, where I come from, female chemical engineering students and pure chemistry students outnumber males while male engineering students and male pure science students, as a whole, vastly outnumber female.

There does seem to be a massive disparity in interest in high-technology, like computers, favouring males in those fields. This is a *personal anecdotal observation*, I don't claim this is a verified fact and have only a small dataset of statistics to back it up, which may well be explained by other factors, blah blah blah.

In conclusion, they are definitely different -- even without studying psychology, a surgeon can tell you there's a difference in the proportions of gray and white matter. One may very well be smarter than the other, but it's pretty much impossible to say. If you have a specific task in mind, you might be able to decide one is better suited than the other (although be prepared for flames, it is a bit politically incorrect to suggest one sex has a higher average in any aspect than the other). But you know, is a fire better than a flashlight? Well, a fire is better if you want to be warm, and a flashlight if you want to use to see inside a wooden building, and ultimately they are just two different things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_and_intelligence

If you don't trust wikipedia (an opinion of some merit), then scroll to the bottom, on the sources, and click them.

Hume was male. Voltaire was female.

I call a tie.
what voltaire is this?

Vulcans.

It changes from person to person. There dumb women and dumb men. There's smart women and smart men. Doesn't really correlate to gender at all.

Vulcans.

Illithids>Vulcans

Illithids>Vulcans

>Men>Big Brains>I rule>YAY

(Sorry if its been done before, new to the boards). Which brain is smarter, the males or females?

I choose male for my sake.



Gender doesn't determine intelligence.

The problems with male brain is that it suffer major irrigation malfunction when the blood is down the pants.

The problems with male brain is that it suffer major irrigation malfunction when the blood is down the pants.

yes, but it remains in mint condition- never been used :p

Neither. Gender does not affect these sorts of things..It's not as if we are all identical, now are we?

But if you factor in ability to communicate - males. By far.Men communicate?

We communicate very directly, while women employ subtle suggestions to baffle and confuse us as to their true meaning. Thus, we communicate better because we have less confusion in our communication.


bakey

We communicate very directly, while women employ subtle suggestions to baffle and confuse us as to their true meaning. Thus, we communicate better because we have less confusion in our communication.
No, we communicate differently.
Neither system is inherently better or worse.

However, beacuse we communicate differently, there's lots of opportunity for misunderstandings when two people of the opposite gender communicate.

Add to that the fact that there's lots of opportunity for misunderstandings when two people of the same gender communicate, and you'll be amazed that we get anything done at all. ;)

No, we communicate differently.
Neither system is inherently better or worse.

However, beacuse we communicate differently, there's lots of opportunity for misunderstandings when two people of the opposite gender communicate.

Add to that the fact that there's lots of opportunity for misunderstandings when two people of the same gender communicate, and you'll be amazed that we get anything done at all. ;)
Easy turbo, I was joking, you don't have to debate this one. Hence the footnote on the post :D

Hume was male. Voltaire was female.

I call a tie.

If he were still alive, Voltaire would be very surprised to hear that.

If he were still alive, Voltaire would be very surprised to hear that.
No doubt

(Sorry if its been done before, new to the boards). Which brain is smarter, the males or females?

I choose male for my sake.

On the basis of my own experience (anecdotal evidence) and resulting judgement , I'd say neither.

As has been priorly expressed, gender probably isn't a factor worth taking into account when accounting for the intelligence of a given human. I say probably, because there is no known hard scientific evidence, to my knowledge, that would satisfy the question you have posed one way or another.

That said, it would appear that women are better at multitasking and communicating, while men are better a focused concentration and logical thinking. If this is the case, then the question is, which type of intelligence do you value more?

I have get the impression that men generally have less self constraint when it comes to sexuality, and as such would spend more time on sexual endevour than women, and maybe that lost time would have been spent on intellectual endevour, if this wasn't so? This is a shoddy theory as to why men could be less intelligent, basically I'm saying men are out on the pull when they could be spending time playing chess or doing the crossword. Nah......

It doesn’t matter which is smarter. Women feel the need to act stupid because of society so men are smarter because they actually use what they’ve got.
Women are really, really good at having boobs though.

Women feel the need to act stupid because of society so men are smarter because they actually use what they’ve got.
Women are really, really good at having boobs though.

Prepare to be flamed (if anyone is still awake/interested in this thread).

It doesn’t matter which is smarter. Women feel the need to act stupid because of society so men are smarter because they actually use what they’ve got.
Women are really, really good at having boobs though.
That made no sense. If you let someone else believe that they're in control when you're really the one pushing the buttons, you'd be smart. Some women feel the need to act stupid and they get things done because of it, that's genius, that IS using what you've got.

You've also made fun of all those large men with boobs. :(

(Sorry if its been done before, new to the boards). Which brain is smarter, the males or females?

I choose male for my sake.

Depends on what you want it to do and which brain you pick. By and large, for instance, the aggregate male brain is better at spatio-visual alignment, meaning that the average male will have an easier time with a map than an average female. The "average male" and "average female", however, represent statistical aggregates, not real people. As such, there are plenty of women on the upper part of the curve who can beat plenty of men on the lower part of the curve at finding their away around a strange area.

So before you can get a very good answer, you'd have to say what you mean by "smarter", and how you want the rest of us to measure on that metric. Do you want us to consider absolute upper limits, statistical averages, what?