are girls really dumber than guys?

[4321234]

<p>i just take the word of the radio. perhaps i remembered wrong.</p>

[Dispatche]

<p>It’s important to remember that every individual is different and obviously many people won’t conform to generalizations. With that being said, just because you know of one or two people that are exceptions doesn’t mean that the generalizations don’t have a valid basis. I think the probability of a girl being hot and being really good at (and interested in) engineering/physics/calculus is very low. Personally I have never met one and I’m going to bet that many people haven’t really either. This doesn’t mean that such girls don’t exist but there’s two reasons for it: 1. the nature of probability. 2. the nature gender roles and differences</p>

<p>I believe that there are evolutionary bases for men being better than women at math/spatial reasoning. People always question gender roles, but I conjecture that society had a reason for evolving the way it did and there must be biological bases for it.</p>

<p>*btw props to lollybo; I hate political correctness. It has influenced people to consider things through the lens of “what’s fair” rather than “what’s true”.</p>

[Millhouse]

<p>I am going to go ahead and agree with Dispatche on this one</p>

[tisthemorning]

<p>It’s mostly socialization, if not all. ( I would say it’s split 80 / 20, socialization / genetics)
If we change the whole perception that women are more suited to household / caretaker type tasks, things would be vastly different, imo.</p>

[joeblow70]

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Haha, I find some of these responses funny. We try too hard to be politically correct.</p>

<p>But here are some facts:
-there are more Muslim suicide bombers than any other religion
-In the United States, more African Americans commit crimes than European Americans.
-The mean income for males is higher than the mean income for females, taking into account factors suck as education
-Engineering majors have, on average, lower GPAs then non-engineering majors.</p>

<p>The above statements may sound like bigotry, but they are facts. Concrete effects do not arise out of thin air, they are explained by systematic causes. For one of the examples above, there are more African American criminals due to systematic disenfranchisement, exploitation, and slavery, leading to poverty and hatred, which leads to crime.</p>

<p>Hot chicks tend to pick the easy way out because they know it works. Girls tend to not be engineers because of the above reason, and become they are arguably better at language skills than concrete mathematics and spatial reasoning. Other sociological factors are also partly responsible for this divide. This is not a sexist claim, it is a hypothesis that cannot be rejected because the prevailing data conforms to the model. Give me a better model, and I’ll believe it.

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<p>Thank you for doing what most people in the country are afraid to do. </p>

<p>Let’s face it. This thread is stupid, and so is the idea of being politically correct. Let’s move on…not only in this forum…but in this society…</p>