Men are smarter than women

Thanks for the quick response crackrocks. ==On Danielle== The reason I chose to use Danielle's argument was because 1) she already dominated my opponent, so I thought it'd be funny since he quotes himself (Seabiscuit) from his previous debate with her, I thought it'd be funny to quote her and 2) because her wording is quite elegant, and I think she wrote a better argument for other measures of smartness than I could have. This proves women are smarter because 1) Danielle, a woman, already beat Seabiscuit on this topic (a man, boy?) and 2) Danielle made a better argument than I could have as well, proving that women can easily defend themselves on this topic. ==On Social Intelligence== My opponent says this is a useless new measure of intelligence (as opposed to old measures like IQ), but it correlates a lot more with success in life than IQ does, so it is more predictive, and it uses many forms of intelligence that Danielle named, such as linguistic, bodily-kinesthetic (body language), interpersonal (self-confidence, introspection), intrapersonal, and existential (knowing your place in the world). Some of the highest IQ males come across as drooling, unconfident idiots who can only talk about WoW because they lack this form of intelligence. Social intelligence could be deemed "applied intelligence" because it measures whether you can leverage your intelligence in a social and business setting. Of the authors my opponent names, only one dealt in social relations, Freud, and he was drastically wrong about how they worked, thinking all men's social problems stemmed from penis-envy and wanting to have sex with our mothers. This does not make him socially intelligent. Anna Freud, Sigmund's daughter, made far more lasting contributions to the field of psychology than her father. http://www.webster.edu... The rest of the men my opponent lists are philosophers, whose philosophy, if you cite it in the average social setting, would quickly end the conversation and prove you to be anti-social. Zizek? Seriously?? ==On multi-tasking== A team of British psychiatrists "have proven that men really are worse at multitasking than women." http://tinyurl.com... This may not require more cross-talk between hemispheres, since the math tasks were often in the same hemisphere as each other in the study. It may mean that women have more access to their subconscious minds, able to relegate one task to their subconscious while their conscious mind processes the other. Also, my opponent's source is illegitimate ("ladybrain"??). ==On IQ== Other, non-g factor measurements are irrelevant to actual intelligence, however, because they merely measure test-taking ability according to Arthur Jensen of UC Berkeley. Who cares that g-factor fails to explain the variation between someone who scores a 150 and someone who scores a 155. g-factor DOES explain the variance between someone who scores a 155 and someone who scores an 80. According to Jensen, g-factor is the "best predictor . . . of that test's correlation with scholastic and workplace performance." http://psychology.uwo.ca... The other IQ factors aren't explanatory, so we can ignore them. Extend my Colom (2002) study that women score as well as men on g-factor tasks. Men score better on tasks that SOLELY correlate with how well they took the test. Also, to answer his large meta-studies, extend the Jorm (2002) analysis that when we correct for health factors, women have higher IQ's than men. Even if you buy the 2-5 point (non-g factor) IQ advantage (better test taking), it is not a significant advantage and does not make up for the much larger advantage women have on EQ scores. Also, women make up for this advantage with age (they improve, men get worse) - extend the Keith (2007) study that women have a 2-4 point IQ advantage later in life. ==On sexual fantasies== My opponent tries to turn this because men are disproportionately college professors. This has more to do with discrimination than anything else and has improved significantly since the Civil and Women's Rights Movements. http://tinyurl.com... My opponent never really answers my argument that men are more easily distractible than women. ==On Cosmo== There was some really important arguments in here. 1) Men who attend college take longer than women to graduate and are more likely to fail out of school (according to the Dept of Education). Women are smarter than men in terms of actual college performance. My opponent asserts this is because women work harder but it is more likely to be that they are smarter. My favorite saying from college: "work smarter, not harder." 2) Women are much better managers than men, since they have higher EQ's, they get more out of their workers. This is another explanation for why women were only 20% of those laid off during the recession, a part my opponent never answers. 3) Women perform better in the stock market (18% returns vs. 11% for men). My opponent points out this is because women take on less risk than men and asserts that men get higher return for that risk. However, men make a return of only 11% (so they make higher short-term returns and lower long-term returns). Safer, long-term investment strategies pay off, something you'll learn if you read Nassim Taleb, the incredible hedge fund manager who knows that cataclysmic market events are inevitable and learned how to make money off them with put-options. Women are smarter investors - this is HUGE. ==Religion== My opponent answers my response but doesn't really extend this in a way that is understandable. I don't see how Catholic Church dominance proves that women are stupid, when my opponent points out that men were just as likely to be sucked in by things like Indulgences. ==On Patriarchy== My opponent never responds to my David Pearce evidence, which says that if women ruled the world, serious wars woud be at least 50% if not 90% less likely. He is not just speculating. According to Spike Peterson, a political scientist at the University of Arizona, "gendered identities are key to manifestations of violence . . . cultures vary significantly in how they construct masculinity (hence, war-making and rape are not universal), and . . . more violent societies evidence more systematic cultivation of gender polarity, rigid heterosexism, male power in physical and symbolic forms, and ideologies of masculine superiority." Male-dominated societies are empirically more violent. My opponent claims that peaceful societies are stagnant, but this is clearly not true in our new globalized society where business will flock to the peaceful, not war-like, countries. Look to Sub-Saharan Africa as an example; countries that remain peaceful get far greater foreign investment. In societies ruled by the brain, female leadership would be better since patriarchal mindsets are what lead to war. ==Women think men are smarter== Danielle references several studies showing that women tend to overrate men and underrate themselves and men tend to extremely overrate themselves. Overrating your intelligence is a sign of stupidity, not intelligence, and likely leads men to work less hard than they SHOULD based on their actual intelligence (leading to problems in college). ==Children== Possibly boys are smarter than girls. However, my Keith (2007) study shows that this trend reverses later in life, when women gain a 2-4 point IQ advantage. In addition, it's more overrating, like we just covered. Drops: 1) Danielle: women score better on verbal memory tasks 2) Danielle: women can read faces, tell when people are lying; are better interviewers 3) Social trends, not innate intelligence, explain any early male advantages in IQ/math 4) Women score significantly higher than men on EQ 5) Goldman study, EQ accounts for 67% of earnings potential, so is a more important measure than IQ 5) Keith (2007), the IQ advantage reverses with time