He's Not as Smart as He Thinks

If you want to you can be smarter then anyone!But you just need to study!But I would say that women are more mature then men are!!

It does not matter who you are.If you study hard you can be smarter.I think that men and women are at the same intelligents.But I would say that women are much more mature then men are!!

given that humankind has evolved in a particular way for millennia where genders have been allocated different responsibilities and each gender exposed to tasks of specific natures, it follows obviously that some people will be better at some things due to social as well as genetic reasons. give everyone equal opportunities and see the results in a century. also, how scientific are the scientific studies - what were the biases of those who designed the IQ tests? how unbiased are the analyses? how inclusive and balanced are the tests of skill sets across genders?

mike at 10:27:19pm, do you have a problem with equal opportunities for all people? the issue feminism is concerned with is not that science is bad. feminism asks for a solution to imbalance, that 1% you talk about. a solution so that a century from now scientific tests would be more accurate. do you have a problem with that? or would you prefer that the 1% remains?

Isn't it better to underestimate rather than over estimate your intelligence? I would rather ask questions and learn than pretend I know everything and never learn anything new. I do think that women need more confidence and self-esteem in order to begin to actually ask questions though. Keep the research coming and soon enough women will not have to work twice as hard to prove they are just as capable as a man.

Why yall believe in such research ? We all know that men are smarter than women. Alot of women believe so too. This Adrian guy is just another Dr.Phil !!!

Who really needs a study? Any reasonable person with more than a 2nd grade education knows that there is no superior sex and that men and women are equal in intelligence. The only significant "findings" in this study is that men over estimate their own intelligence. Well, we already knew that too!

Wow, I guess I was really blessed while growing up. I thought both of my parents were smart. My mom took careof the household finances and my dad worked with computers and other really technical stuff. My mom still had to spell check his reports for him (the original personal computer), but my dad could build and remodel. Neither of them thought I wasn't smart and my sister and I had as many Legos as we did Barbies.

YouMeWe was correct, this article clearly says men and women are equally intelligent, but they PERCEIVE themselves differently. I don't do that with my intelligence, but I sure am shocked when I see myself in a photo, I definitely perceive myself as thinner than I am, not dumber.

Wow, I guess I was really blessed while growing up. I thought both of my parents were smart. My mom took careof the household finances and my dad worked with computers and other really technical stuff. My mom still had to spell check his reports for him (the original personal computer), but my dad could build and remodel. Neither of them thought I wasn't smart and my sister and I had as many Legos as we did Barbies.

YouMeWe was correct, this article clearly says men and women are equally intelligent, but they PERCEIVE themselves differently. I don't do that with my intelligence, but I sure am shocked when I see myself in a photo, I definitely perceive myself as thinner than I am, not dumber.

Oh, boys. You lambaste this article as a "femenistic BS study" that ignores "60 years worth of science", yet, all this article states is that women, on a cognitive, IQ level are equal with men. It also states that women are raised to believe that they are less intelligent than they actually are while men are raised to believe they are more intelligent. This study, as reported, does not appear particularly biased; however, I believe many of the previous commenters are using THEIR OWN biases to incorrectly interpret the content of this article. It appears that many of the men, and some of the women, think that this article states that women are smarter than men, yet it only compares the actual intelligence and the perceived intelligence of the two sexes.

Furthermore, this article suggested different areas in which men and women differ in intelligence. Men are considered more spatially intelligent while women are more emotionally intelligent. However, western society raises children, almost from birth, to have these characteristics. Little boys are given toy blocks and shapes while girls are given dolls and mini kitchens. Of course, boys are then going to develop better spatial skills while girls develop better emotional and empathetic skills. Moreover, by using the term "gender", the author suggests that these perceived intelligence differences are culturally determined because of the fact that "gender" refers to how a society defines what it is to be male or female (while "sex" merely refers to anatomy).

As to some of the previous commenters - a number of you are lambasting Lady O. Boys, if you are going to comment on someone's spelling and grammar, then you should be careful of your own. The word is "look", not "l!ook". It is "making" not "makinmg", "spell" not "splell", and "women" not "wemon". You make a "point"; whereas a "pint" is a glass of beer.

Here is an excellent example of what this article describes - how a man perceives himself more intelligent than he actually is:

"Question - ... who taught you to splell? then why do they make so may dumb decisions in life.PERIOD. ..again not makinmg women l;ook too bright."

True, there are many instances where women make stupid decisions. I mean, there are a number of women out there who when I see them, I???m like, ???Seriously? You are the reason why men think so little of women???. However, the same can be said for men because a large number of the men I know are dumber than dirt and make the stupidest decisions.

Boys, the point is that women and men are cognitive equals, so, please, get off your insulting, bigoted high horse and give your mother, wife or girlfriend, and daughters some credit. Then, perhaps, you won't make such a "stupid decision in life" as to underestimate her.

Note: I do not consider myself a feminist; however, I also do not consider a man to be better than me merely because he has a Y chromosome.

Im a 36 year old woman. I 've tried hard to gain the confidence that my mother took from me all these years. All these years she was admiring my brothers and underestimating me. Basically i believe im much more intelligent than my brothers but i have achieved less in my life due to my mothers behavior towards me. This proves what the article says.

All this article ended up doing for me was prove we aren't ready to seet sexWARZ down. Action > Words every time.

My personal solution? Of course its going to be over simplistic, idealistic and naive... Dominion must go bye bye. see fixed.

Its not who you are underneath, it's what you do that defines you.