Men are smarter than women

Thanks for the debate crackrocks! ==Rebuttal== R1) Drops Lol. Not a single argument that my opponent listed as dropped was a GOOD argument. I don't have time to address every little inane thing that he says. If he extends a drop, make him explain why it's a reason he wins, which he doesn't do for any of his points. The only argument explained sufficiently in detail to address here: Women are good with kids => I didn't address this because it's not REALLY a turn. Being good with kids doesn't make one "not smart." If anything, men's inability to work well with small children is a deficiency. R2) Social Intelligence Not a single one of the people my opponent continues to list is an authority on current human social relationships. Lacan believed that most psychology stemmed from men's fear of castration. Foucault believed the State is constantly creating new ways to spy on us (biopower). Anna Freud - continued to apply her father's work, specifically emphasizing how the ego could be trained SOCIALLY. She is considered THE founder of child psychology, a significant accomplishment in its own right. [1] At the end of the day, listing individual people proves NOTHING about general trends in social intelligence. R3) Multi-tasking The Keith Laws study was a relatively recent study that did in fact study 50 males and 50 females, which still gave statistically significant results. It would take far too long to test thousands of people, one-by-one. This doesn't invalidate the study. In addition, my opponent does not do a literature review so he never proves that it is the ONLY study on the subject. Even if it was, this ALSO doesn't invalidate the study. And I never used his weird source. Ultimately, my opponent concedes that women are better at multi-tasking. R4) IQ My opponent keeps pushing that men have more variance in IQ scores. However, HIS OWN SOURCES from the previous round show that IQ variations at the very top end are from being able to take the test better, not from improvements on g-factor tasks, which Professor Jensen from UC Berkeley says is the only part of the IQ test that actually correlates with real-life workplace and school performance. Extend the Colom (2002) study that men and women score the same on g-factor tasks. In addition, my opponent drops my refutation that this means there are many more really really stupid men, if the variance is higher, so it balances out. He also drops the Keith (2007) study proving that although young boys have an advantage over young girls, that trend reverses later and women have a 2-4 point IQ advantage over men. This should lose him the entire debate right here since his whole (real) case is centered around IQ scores. R5) EQ He claims I provide no source. I sourced this in round ONE, the Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk... Women have an average score of 47 and men have an average score of 42. He dropped it in round 2. It's too late now to rebut. Even if you let him provide a new source, his source includes male-biased categories like self-regard and we already saw, men tend to completely overrate themselves (hubris) and women tend to have more humility. In my opponent's source, women SIGNIFICANTLY outscore men on 3 of the 5 categories. In fact, as I'm writing this, I'm realizing that the averages the source cites don't even make sense. I re-did the averages, with their own category scores, and women scored a 100, men scored a 98.6. Another illegit source for my opponent... R6) Health factors Remember the Jorm (2002) study which found that once you correct for health factors, women outscore men on IQ. My opponent just tells you, for no real reason, not to buy the study, but any good regression analysis controls for as many variables as it possibly can. Men can't be smarter than women if other studies are just capturing health effects of better childhood nourishment. R7) College professors College professors are still predominately male because of the tenure system - historical discrimination takes longer to correct when there is less job turnover. My opponent never answers the Jay Forte (management expert) evidence cited by Cosmo that "a slew of experts are confident that women make greater bosses because they are better listeners, mentors, problem solvers, and multitaskers." No valid reason is given why men are better at being college professors, but women ARE better bosses, and this is backed by expert testimony and logical analysis. R8) Cosmo 1. Men are worse at school, particularly college, where men are more likely to fail out and need extra time to graduate. If you're more likely to fail out of school and need more time than everyone else to complete school-work, most people would label you learning disabled. This really does prove women are smarter, at least in applied settings. 2. Women were not hard hit by the recession. Women using their brains (white collar) rather than brawn (blue collar) actually WOULD prove they're smarter. Refusing to take fleety and risky Wall Street jobs - also a smart move, given what happened. They also were less likely to be laid off as managers, as the Jay Forte evidence said, since they were especially needed during the recession to manage well. 3. My opponent says men are better at making money on Wall Street; the problem is, they are also better at LOSING it when things go sour, which is why the study of 100,000 portfolios found that women earn an average return of 18%, men earn only 11%. Men get no credit for getting a risky short-term gain and then losing all of it AND MORE. Women are smarter at investing; period. Warren Buffet makes less risky long-term bets and does much better than most other young "hot-shot" investors. R9) Religion All Christians were at some point duped by their institutions (indulgences, many predictions of the "end times" leading them to donate all their belongings to the Church only to not get their stuff back). This proves nothing about men over women, it only may prove something about all Christians. R10) Patriarchy I completely turn this with the the Spike Peterson analysis - that societies that instill patriarchy and masculine superiority have far higher rates of violence and rape and the Pearce analysis that if women lead, great power war is reduced by 50-90%. Patriarchy is clearly a bad thing. My opponent asserts we need patriarchy to subdue nature; climate change proves that we need to work alongside nature, not subdue it, or we lose in the end. R11) Perception Perception is not fact. Men think our brains (and our penises) are bigger than they actually are. This hubris actually leads us to not work hard enough in college and as bosses, which is why women perform better at both. Men's false perception is a sign of stupidity. Con Voters: 1) The Goldman study finds EQ predicts 67% of earnings potential. Both studies (mine and my opponent's, corrected) in this round show that women have higher EQ scores. 2) Keith (2007) - dropped - shows that although young boys outscore young girls on IQ, women outscore men 2-4 points later on. Since later ages matter more (job performance, etc), and the topic is women, not girls, this is a clear Con win on IQ. 3) Women are better at investing, better at school, and are better bosses, proved through multiple sources. 4) Women are better at multi-tasking (study is essentially dropped). 5) Men overrate themselves leading to hubris, which hurts them professionally and academically. 6) Matriarchal societies would be less violent (Spike Peterson). Women make better leaders of "men." At the end of the day, who is "smarter"? The man with the IQ of 130, who rates himself as smarter than Albert Einstein, while sitting in his parent's basement jerking off and playing World of Warcraft, OR the woman with the 134 IQ who is managing Ebay? (remember, women outscore men by 4 points at this stage) Vote Con. [1] Shapiro, Michael. The Jewish 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Jews of All Time. p. 276