Is it true that sooner or later, boys are smarter than girls? seriously... don't want a feminist answer.?

Answer 1

This is not true. The average male and average female tend to be almost identical in terms of intelligence.

Two things twist this in reality. Females tend to mature faster than males, so in late grade school and into high school, females tend to do better.

The other item is that females tend to not have as wide a spread between the "dumbest" and the "smartest". As a consequence, there does seem to be more males on the "smartest" end of the spectrum. But keep in mind that there are also more males on the "dumbest" end too.

Answer 2

Hi Luiza

Short answer: "No"

There are at least three common misunderstandings that might give the impression that men are smarter than women.

1. Women's brains are, on average, smaller than the average of men's brains. HOWEVER, this is simply a reflection of body size (larger people, larger heads, larger brains) and does NOT correlate to how smart someone is.


2. As someone has already said, men and women have certain areas where they tend to outshine each other. But overall it all balances out.
It is also the case that, until quite recently (and purely for cultural reasons) women weren't in the same occupations as men. Moreover, it was easier to quantify how well men were doing, in very practical tasks, than it was with women who were doing tasks that required less easily quantified skills.

Like a surgeon's skills can be (crudely) calculated on the basis of how many "successful" operations he/she carries out. But how do you measure the effectiveness of a particular nurse's skills.

3. Boys and girls develop, mentally, in stops and starts which aren't exactly in synch. Thus young adolescent boys will often seem to have come to a standstill whilst girls of a similar age are surging ahead.

Later on, however, mid-late adolescent boys have their own surge, which brings them up to the same sort of performance as the girls (who by now have gone back to their average pace again).

So on a limited scale, there are times - before reaching maturity - when the average boy is smarter than the average girl, and times when the average girl will be smarter than the average boy.

Seen without knowing what's going on "behind the scenes", this can give the APPEARANCE that, overall, girls do OK, but after a slow start buys go soaring ahead. In practise, the two sexes both get to a comperable standard, just not always at the same pace.

Answer 3

That all really depends on the boy and the girl. A teacher told one of my children's class, that girls use almost all of their brain, while boys only use 10%. While this may be true, I didn't think that it was wise to give 5th grade boys an excuse to not be as "smart" as possible. I can tell you that males never seem to reach full maturity. But I really think that it's a choice, not something forced on them. Some just like to PLAY like little boys all their lives, while others seem to THINK like them, insisting on having their way in everything, and things like that. I'm not being feminist. This came from a male Doctor that I heard on the radio.

Answer 4

Are you going to consider every female that speaks up a feminist> because she defending women? No, men are not smarter, they have just been given more opportunities than women. The "glass ceiling" does not extend as high for women as it does for men. When I was a nurse, i felt pushed down by doctors, when it came to getting a higher education, they made it too difficult, it became a choice between two things my work or my family, and that's why i had to quit.

Answer 5

No. Boys and girls can obviously be equally intelligent. If both have equal access, each can excel in the knowledge of any given field.

But then boys and girls grow up to become men and women, and then things can become more complicated.
I think it really depends, then, on how you look at it.
Your perspective.
Things get "clouded" by who "appears" to be in control, or more dominant. But who is smarter, the one in front who appears to be in charge, or the one who stands behind them who is being supported by the one in charge? That's when things become more complex.
In hindsight, or in the end, when you look at it objectively, it really seems like a grand illusion - that one gender is smarter than the other. When you really look at it, it just doesn't make sense to think that one gender is smarter than the other. In reality, each gender is capable of appearing to be "the smarter gender". Each gender has exhibited the fact that either can and do comprehend, utilize, and create knowledge equally well, as well as knowledge that is innovative, new, and/or superior.

What makes it difficult or makes the answer less clear is something you said in your question, "don't want a feminist answer". In a patriarchal, or male dominated society it would be easy to believe that males were smarter because it seemed "they" managed to gain control of society in general. But that doesn't make it true. Likewise, in a matriarchal, or female dominated society, it would seem apparent that females were smarter because "they" managed to gain control of their society.

For example: It might seem at times that one gender is smarter than the other. In times past, apparent male brute control of society made it seem like a "man's world". And , thus, there was this illusion that man was also smarter for having gained control. But that was because he had superior access to the places that ended up controlling society (government, universities, the work place, etc...) while women in general had the task of carrying and raising future generations. However, perhaps it was wiser for women to let man "think" they controlled everything, or were smarter, when in the end they really weren't more or less smart. They were just men. Historically, even though it seems it has been a male dominated world, there have been many woman who have been in positions of authority, and have had to use their minds to maintain their position, just as men do.

In a society where it "seems" men control everything, men also end up traditionally having to be the ones who have to go and die in all the wars in much larger numbers, or contract the diseases known to western society and die younger. Is that smarter? Probably not.

As we progress to the reality of a more equally based society, men and women are facing the challenges that, traditionally, the other gender has had to face.

Since we're just talking about boys and girls here, though, the answer is no, it isn't true.

thanks, Luiza, for an interesting question. :)

Answer 6

It is statistics which i dont think gives a relaistic view not every boy is smarter than a girl eventually statistics only look at percentage so maybe stats show they are but it does not mean every boy is eventually smarter than every girl, i think statistics show they are pretty even, and its only that boys progress more in further education where as girls have s steady progress hope thats not sexist

Answer 7

Sorry but education is what shows who's smarter. Now if you take emotions into being then there lays the differences. Women are just more emotional than men . They care deeper,love deeper and react more with their emotion than men.Sometimes that good -sometimes that's bad. We do get around to logical thinking but go first with gut feeling.

Answer 8

Men have a "logical" intelligence. Women an "emotional" intelligence. If all of us would have the same kind of intelligence would be...boring. One has what the other one not. In a lifetime one should try to understand and develop the other form of.
A "smart" guy who says something not so nice like "she doesn't understand..." ... it's him who doesn't understand the woman (her signals). There is a logic in the unlogical intelligence.
I science man can pass his life being absorbed by ... butterflies, but not understand a woman's mind beauty.

Answer 9

The smartest person in the world is a woman with an IQ of over 200. I'm a guy, but don't see myself ever catching up to her.
Intelligence varies with the indivigual; one's sexual orientation has no effect on how smart (or stupid) you are.

Answer 10

It is probably true that men are smarter than women and that orientals are smarter than occidentals who are smarter than blacks.
The only thing is that the difference is so small that it certainly doesn't apply to individuals.
An oriental cannot assume that he is smarter than the next black person that he meets, neither can a man think that he is smarter than the females around him.
These studies that "prove" these so-called facts are useless and divisive.