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I have read this study. There are many questions that you must take into consideration while interpreting this study. One is the way in which women learn and think as this will effect the way that women respond to these sorts of intelligence testing. Also, you may want to consider the ways in which young girls are treated in the classroom as opposed to boys as well as the expectations. It might come as a suprise but even still young women are not expected to excell in things such as maths or science. Expectations can be personalised and thus creating self fullfilling prophesies. What about the fundamental problems with the IQ test in general? Can intelligence really be measured with such a simple test? What about the motive of these scientists when conducting this study and the biases when interpreting these results? How was the study conducted? Was it a man or a woman conducting the IQ tests? What sort of effects can this create? And on and on.

Then again, I'm just a woman.

2006-11-18 20:12:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Pari, first off though fundamentally the same, the brains of men and women are also structured differently. The corpus collisums (cc) are different, men having less cc connector than women, and brain mass varies as well, men having larger brains. But size has no bearing on the I.Q., since science knows that Einstein’s brain was unusually smaller that average. The research should not be misinterpreted in a sexist manner, falsely assuming that women are dumber than men; this would be a disservice to humanity at large. People, whether male or female, are still individuals; there are both smart men and smart women, and less intelligent men and less intelligent women. Generalizing a stereotype is what is dumb.

2006-11-18 20:54:50 · answer #2 · answered by . 5 · 1 0

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