Underestimated Nutria
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In the past IQ differences of 2 - 4 points or so have been found. Recent IQ tests show no difference at all but they are developed specifically to avoid this bias by increasing the number of verbal/decreasing the number of questions dependent on spatial-skills.I mean I'm a woman myself, but fact is men's brains are larger (on average) and men score 4 points higher on IQ tests than women (again, on average). This is so politically incorrect though that media puts a different spin on it. I know some super brainy maths nerds who're really awkward, weird and borderline autistic, so raw intelligence doesn't mean someone is a superior human or even bearable to be around. What it does mean though is that if trannies want to claim to have "women's brains" they shouldn't also be claiming higher IQ.
Personally I think they all have severe mental illness so the argument is moot
Is this dishonest? Since the various "factors" and domains of cognition underlying IQ (look up factor analysis and IQ if you want an interesting albeit difficult Wiki article to read -- this is NOT the same as Gardner's silly theory of multiple intelligences) are highly correlated with one another, I don't think so, until you develop a provably less effective IQ test (e.g. adding a dance component to give blacks an advantage).
Interestingly, there is evidence that women's brains shrunk much more (17.4%) than men's (9.9%) since the mesolithic (of course brain size is just one, albeit important, aspect of intelligence -- probably the evolutionarily easiest/most calorically expensive way of increasing it though). It's reasonable to think that women used to be a good deal smarter than men; but agriculture reduced the cognitive demands on women to a greater extent than it did for men.
Why did brain size decrease after the Ice Age?
Nubians (Wikipedia). After the last ice age, brain size decreased in Europeans and East Asians. In western Europeans, this trend continu...