Since men have heavier brains, why are they not more intelligent than females?
348403
It is a valid question, and one used against women for years (interestingly, nobody at that time seems to have thought elephants were smarter than men!).  The relationship of the anatomy of the brain to intelligence seems to have only two fairly clear correlations: 1) the amount of surface area folding (sulci and gyri) found on the frontal cortex and 2) the brain weight/body weight ratio.  Under these two correlates, men and women are the same.  There is absolutly no correlation between the size of a person and the intelligence..even though bigger humans tend to have bigger brains.  Now, using the folding and brain to body ratio, we can figure which animals "should" be very smart-and they include ravens, dolphins, and primates.  The raven finding is interesting, because every intelligence test ever given these birds (who have small brains, because they are small animals, but very large brain to body ratios) shows them to be smarter than dogs, and nearly as smart as primates.  Another interesting thing: the only animals that has *both* and larger brain to body ratio than humans *and* increased frontal cortex folding, is the dolphin...makes ya think, huh?
993417
Women do not have the upper body strength that men do. But men do not have the endurance and muliti-tasking skills that women have.\nAlso, women do not start wars as men do. A big plus!\nMen have better mathematical skills, usually, than women, but women have better communication skills as a rule.\nWomen have more nurturing abilities also, men are more adventurous.\nAll in all, women certainly are not "weaker" than men.
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I do not think the question of better applies.  Consider the matter this way: The human mind in general has been deemed as equivalent organ between the sexes; with respect to its general psychological functions.  However, when incorporating real-world data one can see that maps over-the-span-of-human-time have basically been of the males' world.  Like hunters during the hunting and gathering times, travelers to places afar, explorers charting new lands, and the like, therefore, safe to say males as a group still do yet read more maps than do females.  I've no doubt there exists a female such as she can equally well read and interpret a specific map as can the best male.
282963
Women show their emotions alot more than men do, but I believe men aren't as emotional as women. Men are more logical, though they do have emotions.
1090176
because they think with body parats other then their brains.
930935
Maybe for men but women tend to be a lot more practical than men. women may initially act more stupid( in love)   but they tend to be a lot more practical. Men stop using their brain and start using their you know what as an excuse to think. this means the shortest way to bed.
913449
No. On average guys are 80% larger than their female counterparts and are proportionately stronger.
482219
Well, physiologically, women have a lower center of gravity than men, so, if a man and a woman, each places their back against the wall, faces a chair that is directly at their feet, and attempts to lift it without removing their buttocks from the wall, most men will find that they can't do it due to their higher center of gravity, but most women will find they can.  It's simple body mechanics and no magic trick.\n\nBut it's not "science" that "girls can lift chairs better than guys."  That's a bit too broad a statement.\n\nIf anything, it can equally be said that since men typically have more muscle mass than women, that in general, men can lift heavier objects.
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For the most part research is geared toward men and most IQ tests can be a little gender biased. For that matter- so is our school system...Boys are socialized to be smarter and better in things like math and science and girls are socialized to be nice and pretty.\n\nThere is no truth to this and people need to learn how to read research results with a critical eye. Like for years the research showed that African Americans had lower IQ's than caucasians. This is certainly not true and these results only happened because the IQ tests are created based on caucasion experiences.
605003
Girls are smarter at the outset but that is their nature in the long run they are normally incorrect if she has no gender complications.  Guys do not like telling half truths besides girls still hate rejection as this society still treats them the same as yesterday.
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I don't see how a man is as you describe: psychologically..women can think just as fast as men and we use more of the brain both right and left hemispheres than do men. However...If you mean physiological, like body strength? Men do have the potential for more muscle mass than women, simply because that's the design of the male body, however there are female body builders and women can be strong and fast also!
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Generally girls are far more verbal and conversational at an earlier age.  This makes them appear much smarter than boys of the same age in social situations.  Women are more intuitive and practical, less theoretical than men.  This is a wise provision of our creators, I have come to think.\n\nGuy are more interested in inanimate materials and on the average are more logical than intuitive.  Guys develop more slowly, but they have to keep working when they are the same age as gals who are having children.  So guys have a longer learning experience that does not involve the experience of childbearing (pregnancy).  Therefore, it appears that men know more about other things as time wears on.\n\nBut this is not always the case in the modern world.  Sometimes the wife is a doctor who works and the man takes care of the kids.\n\nThe angels say that men and women are equal but different enough so that they will never completely understand each other.\n\nI think women take offense easier because they are more emotionally sensitive.  So, nice men like me are careful how they talk to women when we become older and wiser.\n\nI guess this is not a very satisfactory answer, but I am 61 and a man who has thought about it a lot.  I am certainly not stupid, look here:\n\nhttp://360.yahoo.com/ki_te_moana\n\nbut when I was younger, I think the gals were far ahead of me.\n\nGods plan is for us to be equal.  So we probably are in ways which we do not quite understand.\n\nI only wrote about what I know for sure.\n\nI don't know everything either.
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I tend to differ. I don't think they make better leaders than men, nor do I think men make better leaders than women. There are stupid people from each sex, and intelligent ones as well. You could get some idiot female leader, whereas a great guy and vice versa. It all rests in the person's values, convictions and perception. You really can't judge a book by it's cover (or sex).\n\n-Sarah-
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They don't "think too much", rather they "think differently than we men do".  Because they think so much differently than we do, men sometimes can't understand why they feel the way they do.  Their thoughts seem unnecessarily complicated, and we feel like they're spending too much time on issues and putting too much energy into thinking about it.
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Two factors I can think of.\n1) Male mystique.  Male have an attitude and mentality that they are superior than female.  Male have to show they are not weak and feminine.\n2) Female live longer because they are more resilient.  Their genetic makeup are better than male right from the start in their mother's womb (female have two X's chromosomes XX vs male's XY).
812845
Goodness no.  I think that sometimes men DON'T WANT women to be as smart as they are - but I'm not going to act stupid for anybody.  I WILL acknowledge when my man does or says something smart - but I won't pretend to be less intelligent than I am.  That would be too hard.
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There is no difference.  This misconceptions comes from years of sexist discrimination and stereotyping.  Traditionally, it was thought that men had a higher aptitude for math and spatial problems.  This theory has since been disproved.  Society has been taught to think that there are fundamental differences; there aren't any.