lol and that too depends on the individual ... debating this topic is kinda futile since intelligence encompasses so much and nothing is really objective ... but I think we can safely conclude that I'm naturally smarter than all of you neanderthals, especially steve

I gave that idea first to I'm smarter jk.

I believe there is no set rule that says that says one gender is better than the other. It depends on the two people of diffrent genders your comparing.

Basically the same idea.

Dancing and music aren't intelligent activities in the first place...


EDIT: You mean "aren't" not "are", just helping out lol

~Sayf

Yes they are.

Monkies could dance....

Actually they are, its called bodily-kinesthetic intelligence ...

Monkeys can't dance well.

Sayf and Ladien, monkies could dance...didn't you see those old cartoons or Aladdin for example where the monkies dance for money? Thats how monkies dance...

the monkey in the Aladdin isn't real.

But the monkey in Alladin is copied off a real one. They used to get monkies and make them dance for money, in the old days.

They don't dance proffesionally.

Back on topic: It depends on the individual; not the gender.

Thats because they don't have the same body structure as humans...

We are talking in general...we are not talking about individuals.

;and they don't have the same brain size as humans.

Is the debate over then?

Its over when no one debates....

Most scientists are men.

Should I just stop posting here then becaue I think that men and women can be equally smart.

That'll show me that you can't defend your ideas

If you truly think they are as smart as men, then debate it.

ok, I thought that the debate was about one gender being smarter than the other; not both genders being equally smart.

Due to genetics people get personality traits etc. from their mom and dad which means that guys and girls can be equally smart eventhough the process is kind of random.

Teh debate is that one gender is smarter than the other....

However, girls the xx chromosmes while boys are xy , that migth affect their intelligence....

If I understand correctly, this debate is about the intelligence difference between the genders. I think that they are equally smart, for the reason being that both genders are created equally. I think that a brain of a man is equally capable to the brain of a woman, and vice versa. I think its the question of using one's intelligence, which both genders, generally speaking, do differently.

Hassan, explain why there are more male scientists to female (Like 5000:1 is the ratio)

because males have a tendency to work in that field and use their intelligence in that manner, and because cultural and social barriers stopped women from becoming a scientist. But in modern times, there are more women than men on the working line (percentage increase wise). I don't buy the 5000:1. It is rapidly changing, and so it is in the fields of doctors, teachers, etc.

Here's some news that will stun none of you:


Are men smarter than women? No. But they sure think they are. An analysis of some 30 studies by British researcher Adrian Furnham, a professor of psychology at University College London, shows that men and women are fairly equal overall in terms of IQ. But women, it seems, underestimate their own candlepower (and that of women in general), while men overestimate theirs.

Furnham studies perceived intelligence, and it unsurprisingly shows men overestimate their smarts and underestimate the smarts of women, and women do too. Furnham says, "Men are more confident about their IQ. These studies show that on average, women underestimate their IQ scores by about five points while men overestimate their own IQs. Since these studies were international in scope, the results were essentially the same whether women were from Argentina, America, Britain, Japan or Zimbabwe."

*Yawn*

Women were the ones that were always oppreses in the west by the men. Not the other way around. This shows male smartnesss (Even if it used in a bad way).

I don't buy the underestimate thing.

I could for example say: "I am a male and I underestimate my intelligence" ....did that change anything in your view?
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Hassan: Yes that is the modern crisis of men sitting at home since they can't find work and women are the ones that are mostly working (The world flipped upside down).

Women have had the social barriers removed for a century now...yet I see know significant women scientists

Do you see any significant women politicians, (Clinton, Bhutto, Merkel, Bachelet...), doctors, writers....

Just look down this list to begin with: http://nobelprizes.com/nobel/women.html

36 women won nobel prizes....compared to 747 men who won nobel prizes :doubt:

Your point?