Men smarter than women? I call bullsh*t.
This news is actually a month old, but I just saw it on CNN and man did it make my blood boil. So a researcher at the University of Western Ontario (usually just called Western) did a study using data from the SATs (those evil tests foisted on kids who want to go to college in the States) and says his results show that men are smarter than women (coverage LiveScience, Daily Mirror).
What makes me angry about this? Come on I’m a man, shouldn’t I be happy to get this news? It’s the use of a known flawed dataset. Look tests, especially the SATs, test how people take tests. They also have significant cultural bias. Yes, I know the "new SAT" is supposed to be better, but frankly I can’t believe that there isn’t an inherent bias in using the SAT scores as a sample. Who cares if it’s a large sample. Who cares that lots of people take it. IMNSHO, it’s flawed.
Do I think one sex is smarter than the other? Yes and no. Generally, I think it’s a draw. On specific things I think one sex has the edge over the other. Does it really matter though? Not a freakin’ bit, unless you have another agenda to promote … and that’s using Science for the Dark Side for sure.
Tags: intelligence
October 11th, 2006 at 7:06 pm
hmmm so the researcher who did this study, was a man….and the result is men are smarter than women.
was it a group of men who funded this study as well????
personally i don’t really care. i am smarter in laura stuff than everybody else.
but still….booooooooh!
October 11th, 2006 at 7:19 pm
Yep … you betcha