Alec
09-19-2006, 04:30 PM
OTTAWA - A recent study proves it is ''very likely'' that the reason women have difficulty rising to the top in their careers is because they are less intelligent than men, according to controversial University of Western Ontario psychologist J. Philippe Rushton.
The professor already criticized for claiming that whites are intellectually superior to blacks, and that higher AIDS rates in Africa are due to a more insatiable sexual appetite in the black community believes the ''glass ceiling'' phenomenon is probably due to innate ability rather than discrimination.
''We have to find the truth about the normal distribution in society,'' said the professor, whose study is published in the September issue of the academic journal Intelligence. ''It's not right to simply say, 'it must be discrimination and don't dare say anything else.' One should really look at the facts.''
Rushton co-authored a study that analysed 100,000 scholastic aptitude tests (SATs) written by American teens, age 17 and 18. Researchers focused on the general intelligence factor which relates to how quickly an individual can grasp a concept and is widely considered the most crucial ingredient for high IQ scores and discovered males scored the equivalent of 3.63 IQ points greater than their female counterparts.
Rushton, who was surprised by the findings, said the results reinforce similar studies carried out by Richard Lynn at the University of Ulster, in Northern Ireland, and Helmut Nyborg at Aarhus University in Denmark.
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=f8cf9b7e-2903-4759-bdc4-f93963688eba&k=13310
Woohoo!!! This guy sure likes to be hated.
I read a study once that said men have less average intelligence than women. In other words, on average men tended to be really smart or really stupid, while women on average were more normal in intelligence.
What do you think? I tend to know more men that are as dumb as a box of rocks than I know women who are. I'm not sure whether I know more brilliant men or women. I really don't know that many brilliant people, frappydoo members excluded. ;)
The professor already criticized for claiming that whites are intellectually superior to blacks, and that higher AIDS rates in Africa are due to a more insatiable sexual appetite in the black community believes the ''glass ceiling'' phenomenon is probably due to innate ability rather than discrimination.
''We have to find the truth about the normal distribution in society,'' said the professor, whose study is published in the September issue of the academic journal Intelligence. ''It's not right to simply say, 'it must be discrimination and don't dare say anything else.' One should really look at the facts.''
Rushton co-authored a study that analysed 100,000 scholastic aptitude tests (SATs) written by American teens, age 17 and 18. Researchers focused on the general intelligence factor which relates to how quickly an individual can grasp a concept and is widely considered the most crucial ingredient for high IQ scores and discovered males scored the equivalent of 3.63 IQ points greater than their female counterparts.
Rushton, who was surprised by the findings, said the results reinforce similar studies carried out by Richard Lynn at the University of Ulster, in Northern Ireland, and Helmut Nyborg at Aarhus University in Denmark.
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=f8cf9b7e-2903-4759-bdc4-f93963688eba&k=13310
Woohoo!!! This guy sure likes to be hated.
I read a study once that said men have less average intelligence than women. In other words, on average men tended to be really smart or really stupid, while women on average were more normal in intelligence.
What do you think? I tend to know more men that are as dumb as a box of rocks than I know women who are. I'm not sure whether I know more brilliant men or women. I really don't know that many brilliant people, frappydoo members excluded. ;)