Intelligence in itself is a controversial topic. There is no certain definition of intelligence, It can be said to be a single general ability and also a component of many different abilities. One thing is agreed on, and that is, intelligence is the capacity of learning, it is the ability to understand complex ideas and reasoning with a high mental capacity.
Measuring intelligence has become a highly important ritual in modern day schools, it helps with the appropriate ‘sifting’ of students according to their perceived abilities inferred from their test results. The average intelligence on an IQ test range is around 90 to 115 and this is where majority of people fall into. Who is the superior gender? Studies find that men generally overestimate their IQ more than women do and would also rate men’s intelligence as higher than women overall. Psychologist suggest that men and women both have the same average intelligence but men are slightly smarter than women. There are 2 apparent reasons for this- Evolution and Biology. Evolution Men have better spatial awareness. Evolutionary psychologists have put this down to the idea that men were hunters and therefore developed advanced spatial cognition than women who were expected to stay home and watch the children. Another reason for this advancement is due to the testosterone hormone. Evidence shows that even women with higher testosterone do better on navigation tasks. Generally women manage to make up for this glitch through the use of common sense by memorising various landmarks. Biology Studies that compared brain mass and volume in women and men find that women have smaller brains than men. The average weight of the male brain is about 12% bigger that a woman’s brain, which unfortunately leads some psychologists to assume women as the inferior gender. There are different brain activities between men and women when solving some tasks. For example, in solving mental arithmetic tasks, men have higher dorsal stream activation on the right intra-perietal sulcus, which is needed for mathematical cognition. There has been an overall rise in IQ between men and women but women seem to be raising faster, well according to James Flynn, women used to be -5 points behind men. Now this increase may be due to social changes and the rise in women’s liberation and equality, women have more value and stance in society and as a result are encouraged just like men to do well in education, whereas beforehand it was more appropriate for women to only be bothered with domestic work. Some tests find women to be slightly smarter than men or vice versa, but ultimately there is no significant difference between intelligence of men and women. What this means In simple terms, men and women have pretty much the same level of intelligence on all grounds and are both capable of doing the same things. Temi.F
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