SexismFreddie Woo tells us: Despite being a well rounded modern man I think women are best off getting married and having a few kids else they'll be absolutely miserable come middle age.
What views do you have that are probably sexist that you believe are true?
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Sun 27 Dec 2009, 12:23)
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IQ & stuffI'm not disputing the standard variation stuff on IQ tests as that sounds genuinely interesting - but given that IQ tests have been measuring an industrial, western-centric concept of 'intelligence' for less than a century, given people can actually get better at IQ tests by practicing, and given that the allegedly thick half of the bell curve has been getting smarter since IQ tests were invented, then i'm not sure what it is that IQ actually measures but i very much doubt it's 'intelligence' in the way that most people fail to understand it ...
(also, the wider standard deviation among men in IQ tests in the last century *may* relate to the social roles that men and women have occupied in the 20th century in major western economies, which is 'blink and you'll miss it' in historical and geographic terms ...
that's not an assertion incidentally, just a thought ... it would be interesting to select women who parachuted into hitherto unfamiliar roles - like land girls, women in factories and the armed forces during WW2 – and see what their standard deviation thingie was ...
your loveliness observation meanwhile seems empirically based but on your own informal research (which might be biased by your apparent heterosexuality) and seems to throw in the conjecture that women's *personalities* have the higher standard deviation ... i have more trouble with this as i don't see why there shouldn't be as many dull or charismatic ("charming or lovely") men as women ...
better stop now ... i'd go out but it's snowing...
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writerblock ... embedding disabled by request on, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:08,
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^I like both these very mathsy but interesting posts :0)
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.You're completely right about IQ tests, by and large I think they're bollocks and only a very rough guideline to intellectual capacity. They are the only device I know of, though, that gives a quantitive measure of intelligence and therefore useful for statistical analysis. Stats is very dodgy ground anyway, in my opinion, perfectly summed up by my favourite xkcd:
Just trying to give b3tans some food for thought as I do believe it's quite interesting.
The loveliness thing was an off the cuff observation, and probably complete bollocks. Part of me is tempted to invent a 'loveliness quotient' and conduct a large scale scientific double-blind study, but a) this would pretty much miss the entire point of love and b) I doubt the sort of person who would do that would ever get close to a woman again.
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