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It's (semi) Official: Men are more clever than women

Hmmm. Wonder if this will fuel a few outrages?

Via SKY News UK.

A new claim that men are more intelligent than women is poised to reignite controversy about the difference between the sexes.

Research to be published later this year argues that men's IQs are on average five points higher than those of women.

The scientists who conducted the study say this is why men are more likely to win Nobel prizes and gain other major academic distinctions.

One of them is Richard Lynn, Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Ulster, whose work on intelligence has already proved highly controversial.

Not only has he maintained that men have higher IQs than women, but also that whites are more intelligent than blacks and eastern Asians brighter than Europeans.

The new work, to appear in the British Journal of Psychology on November 4, was conducted with Dr Paul Irwing, Senior Lecturer in Organisational Psychology at the University of Manchester.

Dr Irwing said he and Prof Lynn had found strong evidence that men not only had larger brains than women but higher IQs by about five points.

posted by Fergie @ 8/25/2005 08:39:00 PM