Who's Smarter—Men Or Women?
When it comes to intelligence, the battle of the sexes continues.
People continue to debate the question, Who is smarter, men or women?
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center in Philadelphia have released a study that may help settle the debate.
The researchers note that there have been lots of previous studies which found that head size correlates statistically with intelligence--not quite a widely known fact.
Because on average a man's body and head is bigger than woman's, many might believe that men are more intelligent than women.
The researchers say, however, that is not the case. Men and women consistently score equally on intelligence tests, experts agree. Women are just as smart as men.
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Job Interview: What Not To Do The University of Pennsylvania Medical Center report also addresses the question, If head size correlates with intelligence and women have smaller heads, why don't they have lower intelligence?
The recent study concludes that men and women simply think differently.
"We are beginning to get an explanation for the lack of intelligence disparity between men and women," said Dr. Ruben C. Gur, noted psychology professor, author of the new study.
"Women have a higher percentage of tissue devoted to computation than men. Men have a greater proportion of tissue assigned to the transfer of information between distant regions."
The recent study found that women have a higher proportion of "gray matter" than men. Men have a higher proportion of "white matter."
Gray matter is where computation takes place with nearby regions in the brain. White matter is responsible for the communication between groups of cells in different areas of the brain.
Forty men and 40 women, ages 18-45, participated in the study on intelligence. The study has received national attention and appeared in several media outlets including the Journal of Neuroscience.
The New York Daily News also reported on the study in a story by Michael Segell and noted: "Women's brains are organized around instant linkage, which explains why they can become best friends with a stranger while standing in a check-out line."
The newspaper also noted, "Men's brains are designed to draw connections between seemingly unrelated ideas and feelings--between a new car, say, and sexual arousal."
The study also offered a possible explanation of why men are better at certain mental processes than women and vice versa. Generally, women excel on verbal tasks, while men do better on spatial tasks.
An example of a spatial task given to the study participants involved viewing an array of lines fanning out at angles. Shown a second set of two shorter lines at similar angles, the participants were asked to identify which lines in the original fan array matched the angles of the shorter line.
Experts agree that the debate on intelligence between men and women is one battle that will go on and on, without a winner on either side. But one thing remains clear, the experts say, men and women do think differently.
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