'Men cleverer than women' claim. Sounds preposterous, doesn't it?
Well, actually, if you read the article rather than the headline, you find that the claim is that men have higher IQs than women do. That, I can believe. After all, I don't think that IQ tests really measure anything meaningful, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if there was a sex bias in there to go along with cultural and educational-background biases. That is; men aren't cleverer than women (except, that is, for recognising that you don't need to own more than half a dozen pairs of shoes, or indeed any cushions at all) but IQ tests might give more weight to the sort of tasks that men tend to be good at.
In fact, not only do I believe that IQ tests are not a good way to measure general intelligence, but having read The Mismeasure of Man, I don't even believe that there is such a thing as general intelligence to be measured. Have you ever noticed that even the stupidest people are good at some things, and even the cleverest have their mental blind spots?
Posted to Science and technology by Simon Brunning at August 25, 2005 05:20 PMHmm, the (slightly different) way that I would put it is that there is indeed such a quality as intelligence, but *it is not linear* -- not one-dimensional -- not a number. Indeed, as you say, not "to be measured".
Posted by: Doug L. on August 25, 2005 09:19 PMSimon,
Perhaps we should change the standard IQ test to be a count of the number of pairs of shoes and cushions you possess. Obviously the smaller your answer the more intelligent you are ;-)
Posted by: Andy Todd on August 26, 2005 04:37 AMI once took the original Mensa test and scored somewhere in the 160s. That was proof for me that the test isn't worth anything. No way that *I* am that much above average.
Posted by: blacky on August 26, 2005 08:50 AMI've been saying the same thing for years... That different people are good at different things!
And it takes many different types of people doing many different types of things for society to work well.
I mentioned this a bit here on this topic:
http://trishwilson.typepad.com/blog/2005/08/eugenicists_cla.html
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