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You must be wondering, how can this possibly be true?
Analyzing the sexes through an evolutionary perspective, it is very unlikely that the outcome of two groups which evolved differently turned out to be the same, which means one of them has to be smarter than the other, and it happens to be men.
In what way are men smarter than women?
There is no precise way of measuring intelligence, yet scientific research has interesting findings of how groups vary in reasoning skills, problem-solving tasks, working memory, pattern recognition, and abstract thinking.
The world's most popular method of measuring one's cognitive capacity is the intelligence quotient test, also known as IQ. The genetic impact on the intelligence variation among individuals is still unknown, but scientific studies suggest it is somewhere between 50% and 90%.
Studies have shown that men score slightly higher than women on intelligence tests. An advantage of 5 IQ points. Men also show greater variance in scores when compared to women, which means that there are significantly more highly intelligent men than highly intelligent women.
There is some correlation between height and intelligence. According to several studies, tall people tend to score higher than their shorter counterparts on IQ tests, which is also why men tend to score higher than women. Men are taller than women, on average.
You are thinking, IQ tests don't measure creativity.
You might be right, but there is an easy way to measure creativity: inventions.
Men are responsible for nearly all major inventions and scientific accomplishments. Civilization itself was created by men. Almost everything that exists around you was invented by men.
You are saying, it's because women were historically oppressed.
First of all, the difference in achievements is mainly genetic. I think you are able to conclude the same if you've made it this far. Secondly, even in the modern world where women have entered the workforce and academia, men still outperform women in terms of innovation and creativity. Finally, the odds of thousands of years of human evolution producing two different groups with the exact same level of intelligence are zero.
In addition, think about cultures around the world for a second. Is it just a coincidence that women were historically seen as less intelligent than men? Where does this perception come from?
Some civilizations were more advanced than others, there are hundreds of ethnicities with their own religions out there and racial differences in cultures all around the world, but curiously almost, if not all of them had this perception.
Doesn't this unlikely consensus ring a bell?
In the Middle Ages, women were deemed intellectually and physically inferior. There is now enough evidence to suggest that women are indeed less intelligent than men. The physical superiority of men is also well-documented, although self-evident.
This does not mean, however, that women were generally slaved or exploited by men nor that they should be. Women were, in fact, taken care of. They were considered to be more than children, but less than men. Of course, some men mistreated and abused women, yet this was the exception rather than the rule.
Your argument is that we are all human.
That's true. We are all human. So are children. Are they generally as physically strong and intellectually competent as adults? Of course not.
Babies literally crap themselves to death if no one looks after them. Even adolescents don't have fully developed brains to make important life decisions. Physically or intellectually impaired adults will never outperform physically or intellectually competent adults in physical or intellectual tests, broadly speaking.
The fact that we are all human does not prevent us from having huge differences.
Children are inferior to adults. Women are inferior to men. This is just reality.
Analyzing the sexes through an evolutionary perspective, it is very unlikely that the outcome of two groups which evolved differently turned out to be the same, which means one of them has to be smarter than the other, and it happens to be men.
In what way are men smarter than women?
There is no precise way of measuring intelligence, yet scientific research has interesting findings of how groups vary in reasoning skills, problem-solving tasks, working memory, pattern recognition, and abstract thinking.
The world's most popular method of measuring one's cognitive capacity is the intelligence quotient test, also known as IQ. The genetic impact on the intelligence variation among individuals is still unknown, but scientific studies suggest it is somewhere between 50% and 90%.
Studies have shown that men score slightly higher than women on intelligence tests. An advantage of 5 IQ points. Men also show greater variance in scores when compared to women, which means that there are significantly more highly intelligent men than highly intelligent women.
There is some correlation between height and intelligence. According to several studies, tall people tend to score higher than their shorter counterparts on IQ tests, which is also why men tend to score higher than women. Men are taller than women, on average.
You are thinking, IQ tests don't measure creativity.
You might be right, but there is an easy way to measure creativity: inventions.
Men are responsible for nearly all major inventions and scientific accomplishments. Civilization itself was created by men. Almost everything that exists around you was invented by men.
You are saying, it's because women were historically oppressed.
First of all, the difference in achievements is mainly genetic. I think you are able to conclude the same if you've made it this far. Secondly, even in the modern world where women have entered the workforce and academia, men still outperform women in terms of innovation and creativity. Finally, the odds of thousands of years of human evolution producing two different groups with the exact same level of intelligence are zero.
In addition, think about cultures around the world for a second. Is it just a coincidence that women were historically seen as less intelligent than men? Where does this perception come from?
Some civilizations were more advanced than others, there are hundreds of ethnicities with their own religions out there and racial differences in cultures all around the world, but curiously almost, if not all of them had this perception.
Doesn't this unlikely consensus ring a bell?
In the Middle Ages, women were deemed intellectually and physically inferior. There is now enough evidence to suggest that women are indeed less intelligent than men. The physical superiority of men is also well-documented, although self-evident.
This does not mean, however, that women were generally slaved or exploited by men nor that they should be. Women were, in fact, taken care of. They were considered to be more than children, but less than men. Of course, some men mistreated and abused women, yet this was the exception rather than the rule.
Your argument is that we are all human.
That's true. We are all human. So are children. Are they generally as physically strong and intellectually competent as adults? Of course not.
Babies literally crap themselves to death if no one looks after them. Even adolescents don't have fully developed brains to make important life decisions. Physically or intellectually impaired adults will never outperform physically or intellectually competent adults in physical or intellectual tests, broadly speaking.
The fact that we are all human does not prevent us from having huge differences.
Children are inferior to adults. Women are inferior to men. This is just reality.
