On average who is smarter men (Pro) or women (Con)

I claim that your arguments are conjecture because the burden of proof is upon the instigator of a argument. You saying that I must find proof on why your argument is illogical is following the logic of guilty until proven innocent. However lets \analyse why your argument is illogical. 1.The average women is more concern by want others think of her than the average men. She is therefore more likely to believe what other tell her is truth since she will be more fearful that challenging there position could bridge a gap between them and her. Because social acceptance is more important to women than truth, in contrast to men, they will end up cluttering more their mind with fallacies which will result in a thought process which is less consistent with itself. This section of your argument bases itself on the "average women" without providing any sources to back him up. Thus I believe it would be implied that he is basing this on his own personal opinion which can be biased. Secondly the my opponent bases that women are more self than men which is real person dependent rather than gender dependent. For if you watch any commercial both often present unrealistic expectations so you could make the assertion that both men and women are sensitive on what other people think of them. However, for men it often manifests it self in other sources such as Viagra and other sexual enhancement drugs or their height. Thus I would argue that both men and women are equally concerned of how they appear. http://www.sirc.org... 2.The average conversation revolves around intellectually-trivial points such as mundane events, the news (which is often bias), the weather, games, school grades, office work, etc. Therefore, having a conversation with the average person does not enhance ones intellect. Women, on average, tend to socialise much more than men therefore they tend to spend more time on this non-intellectual activities. I'm curious on were you discovered this average conversation correlation with women but I'll assume for the moment that you based this own your own observations. My observations appear different so I suppose that we can assume that our opinions chance each other out. I'm also curios on what type of women your describing. Are you describe the average women in the United States or across the world. Once again you fail to narrow your argument and create baseless conjectures. 3.In addition, in order to develop ones critical thinking one must practice it. Since, they are more complacent, on average, they will be less likely to try to find the logical inconsistencies of the statement on other. Therefore, they will have a weaker ability to filter out bad information. Finally I'm shocked that you find women more complacent because even now women are given less pay for equal work, their rights over their body is still being questioned, and are unequally represented in governmental institutions. http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu... http://www.lawnix.com... http://thinkprogress.org... So I'm very interested to hear what your definition of complacency is. For do not see any sense o complacency in those facts Now onto your rebuttals 1.My opponent simply makes the claim that my arguments are conjecture with providing any serious argument to support her position. That is because it was not a argument it was a question because you have made it exceeding vague on how you measure intelligence because so far you have only said that women are less intelligent because.... and then have given quite literally no proof to back up tour statement. I hope you do not continue this trend if you go to college because in college your voice does not matter and you must back it up with the opinions of more credible sources than yourself. http://web.grinnell.edu... 2. Ignoring the logical frame work of my argument and then claiming that it does not empirically prove my point is not a good refute. Instead, you should explain why my argument is flawed or show that there is a positive intellectual aspects to social interactions. And you ignore my logic that "average conversations" do not give insight into the intelligence of the individual with IQ tests being the only truly acceptable test of intelligence not their topical discussions. You are making a counter-argument to your position: "Also how will you account for a lack of education because women are unfortunately far less likely to receive a education." Because girls are less likely to receive a education they would do poorer on tests and lead to a third party interference with their intelligence based not on their genders but on their lack of education. This is not counter acting my argument because the question who is smarter men or women does not imply that one has a higher level of education. For in that respect the more educated will almost always win. But that is not your question your question is who is smarter men or women and the source I found answered women. If you would like to find a modern and contradictory source than so be it but do not call my source sensationalized when you still have yet to present your own source.