For the first time in 100 years female IQ scores have risen above men’s

[NNN0LHI]

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Women really have better IQ than men

(IANS) / 22 July 2012

Men may now need to think twice before questioning a woman’s intelligence at home or in the office. Psychologists have found female IQ scores have risen above men’s for the first time in 100 years.

Women have been as much as five points behind men since testing commenced a century ago but that gap has narrowed in the recent times. This year women finally came out on top. It may be because they are better at multi-tasking. The breakthrough has been uncovered by James Flynn, the world-renowned authority on IQ tests.

[Fawke Em]

1. And, yet, the glass ceiling still looms...

[Iggy]

2. Well, there's no doubt in this

guys mind females are the superior gender....

we need way more women in leadership positions.

[sadbear]

3. The only thing that's changed is a more accurate IQ test.

Disclaimer: I'm not female.

[dipsydoodle]

4. Wasn't too hard to get above Shrub's

which is marginally higher than that of a daisy.

That aside I'd always regarded both sexes as having equal IQs - sure was with the girls in my class at school.

[cthulu2016]

5. IQ tests are supposed to be gender-normed at 100

[seabeyond]

6. yu oh. men are gonna be pissed and come after women harder.

this could get ugly.

[NNN0LHI]

11. I am a man but I am not pissed

Makes perfect sense to me.

I knew my wife of 40 years was a hell of a lot smarter than me since the day I met her.

That is why I married and stayed married to her.

Don

[seabeyond]

12. yet, ultimately, that really shows how smart you are. right? i tease. the thing

i have a brother that has 186, 196, something outrageous. he is the most fucked up person i have ever met and has doen nothing with his life but cause him and others pain. so, iq is a meh.... for me. there is so much more that is indicative of smart, successful, healthy, balanced, grounded.

[still_one]

7. we will see. An election is coming up where women are under attack by one party. How they vote

will determine their real IQ

[bluedigger]

8. It must be testing bias.

No other explanation is possibum.

[MadHound]

9. Well, the fact is, for men and women, standard IQ scores are pretty much BS

It has been shown in study after study that standard IQ scores are, except for broad generalization, meaningless.

It has also been shown that the concept of "multi-tasking" is also BS.

[Johonny]

13. pretty much

[onehandle]

10. I don't get it. Could you dumb that down for me? nt

[ljm2002]

14. Must be time to change the tests again...

...which is what they did after the first round of IQ testing showed women getting higher scores than men. (reference: Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man)

But really, while testing has its place, I question the utility of one test that supposedly measures all-around intelligence at all. There are so many great and useful characteristics of human beings that cannot be measured in this way -- including creativity, artistic and musical talent, manual dexterity, and many others -- how useful is it, really, to reduce our so-called "intelligence" down to one single number, and thus go forward trying to label one person as brilliant and another as dull?

I think the reductionist approach to human beings is fatally flawed and does not help us to achieve good outcomes. If someone is brilliant, good: let them prove it by passing whatever tests come their way in the course of their studies, and by doing great things. Otherwise, please let's don't call them brilliant just because they know how to take an IQ test, and have the social and cultural advantages that give them an advantage when doing so.

I recognize it does measure a certain sharpness of wit and ability; my objection is to the reductionist thinking behind it. Anyway, IQ tests were originally devised to identify the slower students and get them the appropriate help. Ironic, eh?