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Posted on Dec 02, 2006 - 3:46am by John P. in Health & Fitness, Politics
Don’t shoot the messenger folks! I’m just an impartial journalist. A male journalist, but impartial nonetheless.
Dr Paul Irwing is a senior lecturer in organizational psychology at Manchester University. He claims that men are more intelligent than women.
All the research I’ve done points to a gender difference in general cognitive ability. There is a mean difference of about five IQ points. The further you go up the distribution the more and more skewed it becomes. There are twice as many men with an IQ of 120-plus as there are women, there are 30 times the number of men with an IQ of 170-plus as there are women.
I don’t know why this is, all I can say is that we have a huge amount of data.
In my 2005 paper in the British Journal of Psychology we looked at 22 surveys sampling 20,000 university students. In 21 out of the 22 studies males always had an advantage. That’s a lot.
The results of both studies were a shock to me. I find prejudice abhorrent. I’ve always taught sex differences from a left-wing point of view, that women are every bit as good as men. My findings don’t fit my view of the world at all.
Read the full article here.
There’s still some controversy around the mean (pun intended) value. But the difference in spread has been firmly established again and again. And for the record; I never shoot the messenger… unless he pulls first.
he’s a man