So where are they all at?

Alright, let's see if we can get real here in this thread...

So some people are somehow saying that women are smarter than men. Just idiocy. I hear the same sexism that men are smarter than women. None of it makes any damned sense. We're equally intelligent, yet designed differently. That's a scientific fact. I've got a dick, and women have boobs.

You know what else is different? Our brains. They are structurally different. This makes perfect freaking sense. Men and women specialized in different things for hundreds of thousands of years. It's preposterous to assume that women will, in general, perform as well as men in things which they didn't evolve to excel in.

Are there some women who are brilliant in math/physics? Sure, why not. There's a grand-master at chess who is female! Are there many, many times more males than females at the higher ranks? Why yes there is. Are there straight men who can keep up with and surpass women with their verbosity? Yep, they exist as well.

Exceptions exist, but the general facts remain. Women have larger corpus collosum, and higher white matter. Men have higher grey matter, and utilize their right brain more often with certain tasks. So what?

Now, onto this whole, we're getting smarter or getting dumber thing. I looked at the OP that mentioned the flynn effect, then looked at Phage's post talking about natural selection being decimated.

So the flynn effect reversed almost a decade ago now. I don't know why these idiots are still talking about it. Whatever the flynn effect truly represented, has passed. We're now in steady decline.

The article Phage mentioned talked about humans having peak intelligence back 750,000 years ago, and their reasoning was mere natural selection. I'm sorry, but that seems to not be the best reasoning. It's not taking enough into consideration.

The way I see it, it makes sense that some of the genes which were meant for intellect of mere survival may have died out, but that doesn't indicate intelligence as we now use it has died out. We don't need to fend off saber tooth tigers, or store long strings of information into our heads for no good reason. That's the past. These idiots are trying to measure our current course based on outdated notions of intellect. We are far, far passed mere survival.

What is intelligence? How about the ability to adapt and flourish within your environment, else transcend it all together and create from without. By that definition, I think we've got quite a few intelligent people around here.

So intellect doesn't exist without the environment. As the terrain, culture, and social institutions change over time, so does our perception of what intellect is change as well. If civilization collapsed, the article Phage mentioned would be realized as truth. If it keeps petering on, it's obviously incorrect.

If girls were really getting smarter they would stop dressing and acting like sluts and being Twits and more time reading books.

Well,
In the real world I live in
The majority of the women I am around Are not of Intellectual nature..
Business setting/ manufacturing
They are good(mostly) at their trained (collage) job,, but past that... clueless
Not a whole lot of the "common" sense that life should teach or the adaptability for survival..
which is where I base my "smart" category for people in general.
A robot has the ability to download information.. but it doesnt mean it is smart or of Higher IQ

Oh and to make a clarification here..
Guys fit the same category in the above..
I just dont think Woman are getting smarter than men these days

Common sense isn't common anymore.

Is it possible that the IQ tests have become easier? School tests are, "no child left behind" saw to that. I don't believe people are getting smarter, our toys are getting better and that is dumbing us down.

Originally posted by 1/2 Nephilim
Common sense isn't common anymore.

Is it possible that the IQ tests have become easier? School tests are, "no child left behind" saw to that. I don't believe people are getting smarter, our toys are getting better and that is dumbing us down.

edit on 25-12-2012 by 1/2 Nephilim because: (no reason given)

You are correct,.
I am 46,. and am amazed at the lack of ability to think things through by most people today..
I am also becoming weary of resolving simple problems these people come across..

Back when I was in kindergarten, I dated all of the most hottest and popular girls at my grade school.

Now I don't stand even a remote chance with any of them anymore.

So yes, I agree, they seem to have gotten much smarter since then.

Originally posted by Steffenfield
Back when I was in kindergarten, I dated all of the most hottest and popular girls at my grade school.

Now I don't stand even a remote chance with any of them anymore.

So yes, I agree, they seem to have gotten much smarter since then.

So that to me sez,.
You havent evolved..?