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So what does it mean? Are 92% of men really smarter than the average woman?

Maybe.

Mr. Thompson explains,

However, cognitive tests show an effect size of only 0.2 in favour of men, just 3 IQ points. In consequence, at IQ 130 70% are men and at IQ 145 80% are men.

It is possible that, in a rush to ensure that men and women’s mental ability scores can be presented as equal, men’s stronger subject areas have been under-sampled. Test producers are under pressure to minimize sexual and racial differences.

In defence of any group who think that their specialist strong points have been ignored, we should set the sampling frame for cognitive tests as wide as possible. There may be a small but real male advantage in intelligence which a broader scope of tests would reveal.

Bigger brains are associated with bigger bodies, but the very large male-female brain size discrepancy suggests something else is going on besides correlated brain-body size dimorphism.

From Thompson’s article on the study over at Unz:

Broadly the same effect of male advantage can be found in all the brain region sub-comparisons. Male brains are both larger, and also vary more in size. Greater male variability seems a fact of nature. If there were a direct relationship between brain size and cognitive ability, there would be many, many more bright men than bright women.

The cognitive test was limited to a 13-item verbal-numerical test to be completed in 2 minutes, which ought to be enough to grade the general population.

[…]

The test might be a little crude if the purpose is to detect sex differences across the broad range of different cognitive tasks, and also a bit limited if the volunteers are, as one might expect of this database, somewhat brighter volunteers interested in contributing to science. However, these are minor quibbles. All intellects can be evaluated in 2 minutes.

[…]

Sure enough, Table 2 shows that the cognitive tests are only an effect size of about 0.2 in favour of men. Where did all the male brain size advantage go? 0.2 of a standard deviation works out to 3 IQ points. Nothing much, you may say, considering that the test-retest reliability of the Wechsler is 4 IQ points, but if this is a true representation of male-female differences, then we can calculate what it would mean for the male/female balance at the higher levels of ability. As you may have seen in previous posts, if men are really 3 points brighter than women, and women’s standard deviation is narrower than men, say 14 rather than 15 points, then this makes a big difference at the higher reaches of intelligence.

Here are the estimates, if one assumes men have an IQ of 102, (sd 15) and women an IQ of 99, (sd 14).

At IQ 130: 69.8% men
At IQ 145: 80.3% men

[…]

This is a very substantial paper. It shows a massive sex difference in brain size of 1.4 d, and when one factors in that brain size relates to intelligence at a correlation of about 0.28, then the predicted intelligence difference will be a large 0.39 d, but the observed difference is only half that. Paradoxical. One implication is that there are sex-linked differences in brain structure and dendritic arborization which overcome pure size differences. If so, how is this balancing act achieved? Why don’t all people have the smaller, more craftily wired version of the human brain, which presumably requires a smaller blood supply. On the other hand, it might be that the cognitive testing has not been wide enough, and has ignored tasks in which males have an advantage. By the way, if one sex has an advantage in one skill, this is not an error of testing, it is a triumph of testing that a real difference has been revealed.

Speculatively, it’s not just cognitive tests that could be ignoring tasks which favor men. Colleges could be selecting students based on criteria that likewise ignore areas in which men have an advantage.

In honor of International Whambamthankyoumaam Day, here is a picture of misogyny:

105 Responses to “Men’s Brains Are Significantly Larger Than Women’s Brains (Happy International Wahmen’s Day!)”

  1. Gunslingergregi says:

    All intelects can be rvaluated
    In two minutes
    Well no wonder theirs a problem
    Rofl
    Should take men and want with exactly same sat score measure those braind
    We only got so much harddrive space i imagine
    So why men ok doing it all
    They got space for carreer
    Kids and hunting
    Woman may just have space most of em
    For carreer or kids
    Or kids and job comes naturaly to them

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    • Gunslingergregi says:

      Then ya got to figure who has more imagination space
      This is what sat test cant measure for
      Even with puzzles
      They can help though

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      • Greg Eliot Gay Son says:

        GO AWAY ASSHOLE!!!

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      • hans says:

        This wierdos incessant prattling can go on for dozens of posts while I get “put on the benches” after 2 or 3 choice words about a certain most beloved peoples of g*d.
        Hmmmm…..

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    • Gunslingergregi says:

      There harddrive
      Might get used more for all the Going on in neighborhood
      whole mans got her telling him bout that in additional to his other shit
      Like posting on h

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    • Gunslingergregi says:

      Should of been qoutes on intelektual in two
      minutes
      Ask to explain infinity lol
      Ask for original ideas
      To actually measure and imtellect
      Not a normal person
      Or yea look at Ten million posts
      By guns om h he he he

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    • Gunslingergregi says:

      Part of reason i don’t check spellinh punctuafion
      Id how can u posible think outside
      Box of inside a box
      Plus the brainspace to do it plus
      Time
      Plus conformary
      Plus my people
      Plus too lazy
      Cant be h rofl

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      • Jay in DC says:

        There is a rather wide gap between a couple of spelling / grammar errors and speaking in tongues like some type of Forrest Gump who just mainlined a vial of Ketamine after a meth bender.

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      • Gunslingergregi says:

        Just stfu jay
        U aint got shit to add dude

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      • Mr. XLoveli at foetos.wordpress.com says:

        Maybe the shortfall in female brain size makes them harder to train, like a dog needs training. Can this explain female resistance to subordination? Chicks like to run their own lives, and it takes a strong pimp hand to bring them down. The threat of leaving them, however, is usually enough to accomplish it. Women’s brains must also include MASSIVE compartments for EMOTIONAL TOOLBOXES. All those feelz they have. The ideal girl is nasty, but not a drama queen.

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      • Lord of the Gulf Stream says:

        This is what you get from a smaller brain.

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      • Corinth Arkadin says:

        gunny, come on, have a sense of humor, JayinDeeCee made a quality poast.

        It was also funny as hell, I LOL’ed for real dawg.

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  2. dblr619 says:

    (((SHUT IT DOWN, da g0y know!!!)))

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  3. Cracker says:

    a. same
    b. not same

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  4. Gunslingergregi says:

    There only at one twist seperation
    asvab
    Multiple twists

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  5. brabantian says:

    Likely scenario – Now that DJT has flipped off the best part of his base, time is ripe to take him down for what had been great & good about him, which the ultra-insiders cannot forgive … tho DJT will also have his reward for cucking so completely.

    Scandal will not be ‘Russia’ but past dirty biz deals, and parallel also to more probe of Clinton-Epstein, Obama-DOJ shadiness etc … the grand ‘deal’, to ‘put the past behind us’, will be Nixon-type pardons all around, Clintons, Bush, Obama, DJT & family … a few months of Mike Pence at 1600 Penn, and then … Yang2020 & a Latina VP, with a decreasing-value thou for everyone each month till it all burns down in the US of (Latin) ‘murica

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    • Mr. Rational says:

      Question is, WHO do we replace him with?  Kris Kobach has his heart in the right place but I doubt he has the name recognition to win 270 electoral votes.  Face it, doing reality TV was a major part of Trump’s long march to the Oval Office.

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      • Lichthof says:

        The great llhan Omar

        Called out the kikes
        Called Obama a fake and a murderer

        And does it all with a smile

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      • Igor says:

        You don’t get a choice. Trump was a freak occurrence. Rich, charismatic, already famous and policy proposals that motivated people. Your options will be whatever leftists the party elders give the third world masses the honor of choosing from. Or we have a civil war and whoever is still alive afterwards is in charge.

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    • oink says:

      Maitre,

      Pls ban me if this proves false.

      A DENISOVAN will never-ever run these Putridan United States! Never!

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    • no, Trump will prevail

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  6. YourAverageJoe says:

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  7. The excellent website sciencevsfeminism.com which is not working at the moment. Possibly shut down by the feminist equivalent of the Waffen xx. Had detailed articles on just this subject, and evidence that at the very begining of IQ testing that the testers/creators fell victim to the white knight effect and were frightened of revealing that women are dumber than men.
    So IQ tests were deliberately made gender neutral, and when male and female intelligence were compared it was done at an age (early teens when girls momentarily get the jump on boys) so as to show that girls are smarter than boys and by extension women are smarter than men. Which is demonstrably false, even today. All it takes is a small amount of rationality to see all the assistance that girls are given in the School system and Universities as well as in the workplace to see how low on the IQ totem pole women really are. A rational look at all of mankind’s achievements in science, exploration and innovation will reveal that it is intelligent( in particular white) male risk takers who have shaped this world and not women or the weak men that continue to apologize for them. Sure there will be one outlier such Marie Curie,(who is a rounding error on the spreadsheet of intelligence) but by larger it is men who are more intelligent than women. So when someone says women are smart than men, push back and push back hard and if you think this small action won’t make a difference try sleeping in a room with a mosquito. Spread the word.

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    • Jay in DC says:

      It is just more Clown World bullshit. Anyone who has ever had a modicum of interaction with wahmen know that the VAST majority are as dumb as a bag of hammers. They have nothing interesting to say, know very little, and drone on incessantly about meaningless shit.

      This also applies to the “highly educated” ones that vomited back the right rote memorization answers in their diploma mill universities so they could land make-work jobs and feel ‘smart’.

      My girlfriends over the years have been not only attractive but -exceptionally- intelligent and for that reason they were all rarities by their very nature. Almost to a single one every one of them would tell you that they couldn’t stand talking to other women for the exact reasons I listed above.

      Only in the world where all blacks are scientists and all women are ace fighter pilots (h/t Cap’n Mahval) and other BS is this even a discussion.

      Liked by 5 people

      • Captain Obvious says:

        >>>>> “My girlfriends over the years have been not only attractive but -exceptionally- intelligent and for that reason they were all rarities by their very nature.”

        All those beautiful beautiful beautiful White Bunz -> White 0venz which could have been…

        …but weren’t.

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    • Mr Meaner says:

      “Try sleeping in a room with a mosquito”

      That’s very crisp

      Liked by 2 people

  8. Dylan Sexton says:

    >pleats
    Yikes!

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  9. Amon Ra says:

    Dang Amish and their wacky double standards .

    – Disney CEO Says Joy Behar and Jimmy Kimmel ‘Blackface’ Controversies Are a ‘Private Matter’ –

    https://thepoliticalinsider.com/disney-ceo-says-joy-behar-and-jimmy-kimmel-blackface-controversies-are-a-private-matter/

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  10. cortesar says:

    what ’bout this one

    land of absolute lolz

    Brianna Wu Calls for Government Legislation In Response to Negative Captain Marvel Reviews https://t.co/50kwJ3wQzq pic.twitter.com/dBmuEmJNnh

    — Bounding Into Comics (@BoundingComics) March 7, 2019

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  11. Bucky says:

    Men use logic,

    Wamen use manipulation,

    The end.

    Liked by 1 person

  12. Libertarian_Pill says:

    Speaking of International Women’s Day, it seems to be quite a new fad in America. If you read up on its history and those who championed it (Bolshevik “Russian” ladies), you don’t really want to have anything to do with it.

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    • paddy says:

      There is an equivalent day for Men in Russia – but don’t of course, think it will get any attention here …

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  13. Southern WASP says:

    The best performing engineers I’ve met are almost always male and either Germanic or Jap ancestry. The few women that slip through often get Peter Principled into a corner before they can do anything of value.

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    • Anonymous says:

      Do intelligent women’s fallopian tubes block dumb sperm?

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      • Anonymous says:

        Unfortunately, no. Smart women love dumb thugs every bit as much as dumb ones.

        Liked by 1 person

      • YourAverageJoe says:

        The best miracle would be if stupid white cunts had built in nigger sperm filters.
        It’s one thing to see a white thot display her hatred for her loving father for all to see, but producing an unfortunate mulatto is tragic for all.

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      • Hackett To Bits says:

        Intelligent + woman = does not compute

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      • Suburban_elk says:

        The best miracle would be if stupid white cunts had built in nigger sperm filters.

        Give it two hundred thousand more years.

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  14. Tipsy says:

    If you look at the FIDE Chess ratings, only one woman, Yifan Hou, is in the top 100 (at 87), and only for Standard chess, not Rapid and Blitz chess where moves need to be evaluated more quickly.

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    • Southern WASP says:

      Chess is a great test. The top level games are all public record, and you can’t BS your way through the rules.

      Liked by 2 people

      • Tipsy says:

        Yep. Yifan Hou and Magnus Carlsen (#1) have played 6 times with 5 wins for Carlsen and only one draw. Pretty much a blow out. Here’s one in particular:

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  15. Chris Stevens says:

    even men on the lesser side of the bell curve can prove themselves to be very useful, and in a society that still teaches and values common sense these same men develop an earthy wisdom that no average woman can approximate in the realm of her mediocrity.

    i have had the honor of knowing a last few of these men. what they did not have in raw potential gave them the gift of humility, hard work, dedication and ultimately a timelessness that the crushing of their caste has forever robbed from our world.

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  16. bigjohn33 says:

    That took my wife way longer than it did me.

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    • bigjohn33 says:

      Funny thing is she was a valedictorian in HS and got way better grades in college than me. It took her a legit minute to solve the mental rotation puzzle. It took me about 5 seconds.

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  17. Igor says:

    Interesting. I thought something like this might be the case. It was the fact that everything of value over the last several thousand years was created by men that tipped me off.

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  18. Anonymous says:

    That mental rotation test hurt my brain.

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  19. Jack Archer says:

    Women are stupid, but exceptionally cunning.

    They can’t remember how you like your eggs, but they will remember a slight for years: they’ll lay in wait for the exact right moment to pounce, and thrust the dagger deeply for maximum revenge. The intricacy of the plot, the heartless, cold calculation, the never-wavering dedication and blood-lust to inflict pain can be staggering, something that would never ever occur to a man. Underestimate them at your peril.

    I’m smarter than a rattlesnake. But I’ll never turn my back on one.

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  20. Marc says:

    Max Boot wants you to know that Democrats can be as “tribal” as Republicans.
    Do these (((people))) ever listen to themselves?

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  21. Dirtnapninja says:

    Women are just children with tits.

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  22. Bo says:

    Size doesn’t matter, men also vastly overrepresent among the lowest 1 percent of IQs. Men are the gamble, women are the sure bet. Some men in history have sired thousands of children, women have a biological limit.

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    • bigjohn33 says:

      “Size doesn’t matter.” Wrong.

      The brain is an expensive organ. If there’s sexual dimorphism in brain size there’s a reason for it.

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    • Suburban_elk says:

      men also vastly overrepresent among the lowest 1 percent of IQs

      Is that actually true though?

      Is the bell curve actually exactly symmetrical, or is that just wahmen’s international day propaganda so that they can feel good about something.

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      • oink says:

        Is ratio of two bell curves. So possible; tho unlikely. Down syndrome does not segregate by sex; Klinefelter is very rare.

        Also, IQ tests being designed AGAINST male type thinking may really hurt those who are borderline; so you end with fake male over-representation

        whateves, male or female, the current state of affairs is equally shitty

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  23. snarkwolf says:

    Brain size is tricky. It is a reasonable guess that the smaller te organism, the more evolutionary design work goes into miniaturization.
    An empirical study of what reasonably be assumed to be equally intelligent species with significant body weight suggests that brain weight, controlling for intelligence, scales as weight ** (2/3). (** stands for exponentiation, think Fortran). So even if men and women were equally intelligent, the on average smaller women would have a smaller brain weight.

    [CH: as i mentioned in the post, the substantial brain size sex gap is larger than what would be predicted from a simple sexual dimorphism scaling calculation. There’s something else going on here that would give feminists heartache.]

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    • Suburban_elk says:

      So a 200 lbs man and a 100 lbs woman have the same intelligence, but a man’s brain size is not simply twice as big?

      A brain is a three-dimensional mass like the body. It will miniaturize more in a smaller volume?

      Plz explain.

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  24. LOL says:

    Okay, I’m gonna throw this out here… I think for anyone who’s ever seen a girl catch, this surely is where girls are most lacking in brain mass and neurons? This Might explain why males on average aren’t that much smarter but are clearly superior (even the nerrds) when it comes to physicality, coordination, movement?

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  25. JOSEPH ANGEL says:

    Hmmm, let’s see. I can explain to you the principles of electricity and magnetism. I can even create an electric current for you with a piece of wire and a magnet. I can explain how an internal-combustion engine works, its four major systems and various sub-systems, and I can diagnose and repair it if needs be. I can operate a tractor-trailer, fork-lift, pallet jack, cherry-picker, and various military vehicles, wheeled and tracked (from my ware-housing and OTR truck-driving days, and military service). I served in the military for over twenty years and spent another twenty in the civilian sector: insurance industry, retail, hospitality, trucking, medical, law-enforcement, civil service and can explain how those industries operate.
    But, I will be god-damned if I can explain how women walk in high-heels or how they can get up in the morning, put on make-up and girly clothes, and still make it to work on time. So, there are limits to the male brain and cognitive abilities.

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  26. Atavisionary says:

    Related, Autism and the extreme male brain. As you point out, men have a substantial advantage in visuospatial skill. Likely a result of the effects of testosterone and other androgens on male brain development.

    https://atavisionary.com/autism-and-the-extreme-male-brain/

    Of course, most standardized testing ignores this entirely because there is no way to wipe away the huge male advantage here. Nearly a standard deviation. I suppose they figured it would be best just to ignore it and hope no one noticed.

    https://atavisionary.com/how-standardized-testing-undervalues-men/

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    • Atavisionary says:

      I forgot to mention, though its in the article. Grey matter for men and women is about the same after adjusting for body size. However white matter is not, androgen hormones encourage more growth of white matter and the bulk of male/female differences in brain size is a result of increased white matter. Of course, it gets even worse when you realize that the DENSITY in males is also much greater. You could get a hint of that at weight differences, but volume measurements won’t pick it up.

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