Autumn Butterfly, I suggest you ignore all of the inane bullshit that has been spewed on this thread, especially all of that crap about men being smarter, and more men leaving religion because of logic, spatial awareness, and all of the other crap that they like to attribute to themselves.
More men leave religion not because they are more capable of thinking their way out of it, but because they are not as controlled as women.
Afghan Hassan, you are taking the data (and ignoring plenty of evidence to the contrary) and twisting it to suit your own bias. Even worse, your way of dealing with criticism of how much wrong exists in your posts, is you trying to shut down further discussion by whining about 'Butt hurt', and 'feminists'.
It is not that men are more intelligent, but that men consistently rate themselves as more intelligent than women.
There is a huge gender bias in self estimates of intelligence, and the earliest study to explore this gender bias was undertaken by Hogan (1978), who through 11 consecutive studies between the periods of 1973-1976, with a total of 2002 participants, used a self-report survey to ask participants to estimate their own IQ’s based on the bell curve description of general intelligence. For 5 of the studies undertaken, estimates for parental IQ were also gathered. His results found that statistical significance at the p < .05 level was present for 5 of these studies.
This finding for males to overestimate their IQ, and for women to underestimate theirs, appears consistently throughout much of the replicated research currently available (Bennett, 1996; Hamid & Lok, 1995). Furthermore, this gender bias in intelligence self-estimates does not stop at the personal level, with findings that both genders will rate brothers as more intelligent than sisters (Furnham, Fong, & Martin, 1999), son’s as more intelligent than daughters (Furnham & Gasson, 1998), and fathers as more intelligent than mothers (Hogan, 1978). These findings appear consistently and furthermore, cross culturally (Stumm et al., 2009), and negative self-estimates were also found to have real life consequences, correlating with lowered performance where they were present (Beyer, 1998; 1999; 2000).
Even where an IQ test was conducted first, and then men were asked to assess their own IQ BEFORE knowing their actual score, men rated themselves as 3-4 points higher, than they actually were. (Reilly & Mulhern, 1995; Furnham & Gasson, 1998)
But hey man, I wouldn't want the facts to interfere with your gender influenced belief on the intelligence of your 'people'.
Social justice warrior?
who would have thought that seeking justice was now some sort of insult.
Given that you are already biased towards a disposition to see yourself as more intelligent than women, I hardly think you are best placed to assess the truth of such a claim.
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