This article has stirred up a bit of controvery...
HALF the population will dismiss this story - but a new study claims the cleverest people are far more likely to be male than female.
Men are more intelligent than women by about five IQ points on average, making them better suited for tasks of high complexity, according to the authors of a paper due to be published in the British Journal of Psychology.
Yay! Another useless study!
The "Your Say" section is entertaining, though...
From: Mel
Comment: I don't buy it. If they're so much smarter, why can't they remember relevant birthdays or to hang up their towels? Maybe they're all worn out from carrying around those huge heads. But when you think about it, big brains are pretty useless when all the blood is flowing the other way.
Rrrrrow! You go girl!
From there, the comments seem to veer on to a collection of anti-feminist rants, like this:
From: carl weathers
Comment: Feminism is destroying our society. If women had stayed in the kitchen then there would be no unemployment problems and men would still earn enough to support their families on a single-income.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I think it's probably a bad idea to shut more than 50% of your country out of the workforce. It's definitely not good economic sense, for one thing.
...And then, there's this puzzling entry:
From: Janne
Comment: Even if we men are meant to be smarter i still think the average person is an idiot so its not that impressive , maybe i a man an average person to someone else so i stupidly suggest we are all just different levels of fools
EH?
Posted by Quentin George at August 26, 2005 06:09 PM"From their", "It's definately not good ".
Neither is your spelling ;)
Posted by: Engels at August 29, 2005 07:21 PM