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Post by tqisfoo on Jul 29, 2005 15:27:18 GMT 10
Or perhaps even wunderbar?
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Post by marysunshine on Jul 29, 2005 16:16:04 GMT 10
Or perhaps even wunderbar? Meow.
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Post by Meg on Jul 29, 2005 16:20:42 GMT 10
I looked up geniuses on the internet and I noticed that they were all of European descent. Obviously there is more to it than male/female differences.
I thought Asians usually scored the highest in IQ tests.
Perhaps environment plays a part?
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Post by marysunshine on Jul 29, 2005 16:27:38 GMT 10
I looked up geniuses on the internet and I noticed that they were all of European descent. Obviously there is more to it than male/female differences. I thought Asians usually scored the highest in IQ tests. Perhaps environment plays a part? I wonder about the cultural side of it too. Are we being ethnocentric or are we using sources more favoured by certain cultural groups?
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Post by holly on Jul 29, 2005 16:44:50 GMT 10
Or perhaps even wunderbar? Thank you TQ. I was so excited by Mary's find I spelled as I spoke out loud. This is what happens when you learn the spoken language from your Mother and only a school education in spelling. Please forgive me. It does end in h though.
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Post by holly on Jul 29, 2005 17:01:03 GMT 10
I looked up geniuses on the internet and I noticed that they were all of European descent. Obviously there is more to it than male/female differences. I thought Asians usually scored the highest in IQ tests. Perhaps environment plays a part? Europe is so large and concentrated, so thoughts can be shared easily and scientific plagiarism occurs all the time, also It's history covers the whole of the modern era.
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Post by babooshka on Jul 29, 2005 17:26:45 GMT 10
I remember he contributed...Literature Do you think women are equal or superior in that field? Yes, there is some great literature written by women (admittedly my favourite novel ever is To Kill A Mockingbird, written by a woman, and my favourite film, Gone with the Wind, an adaptation of a novel by a woman), but I would not say they are on par historically with men in that field. Of the arts, yes, it's where women have most excelled, but I'm not certain they would be on an equal or higher level than men. Speaking of creativity between the genders (and certainly a relevant argument in that it is a moden artform), what do we attribute women's failure in film? I consider myself very knowledgeable in the field and am uncertain I could name more than a half dozen female directors, and if any of us were to name their ten greatest directors it would be lucky for one woman to be named. There is a true and definite inequality there and I'm not certain to what it can be attributed.
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Post by holly on Jul 29, 2005 17:41:31 GMT 10
I remember he contributed...Literature Do you think women are equal or superior in that field? Yes, there is some great literature written by women (admittedly my favourite novel ever is To Kill A Mockingbird, written by a woman, and my favourite film, Gone with the Wind, an adaptation of a novel by a woman), but I would not say they are on par historically with men in that field. Of the arts, yes, it's where women have most excelled, but I'm not certain they would be on an equal or higher level than men. Speaking of creativity between the genders (and certainly a relevant argument in that it is a moden artform), what do we attribute women's failure in film? I consider myself very knowledgeable in the field and am uncertain I could name more than a half dozen female directors, and if any of us were to name their ten greatest directors it would be lucky for one woman to be named. There is a true and definite inequality there and I'm not certain to what it can be attributed. In literature my opinion women compare favourably. But men make better playwrights (need I name them) So Babs it may well be mens mechanical ability in the film arts that helps them.
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Post by Meg on Jul 29, 2005 18:12:40 GMT 10
I've noticed that as time progresses more and more female names appear in the credits. Producer, set designer etc. Perhaps it's just a matter of time.
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Post by 4213 on Aug 2, 2005 1:25:26 GMT 10
Evolution will see a change in the number of female directors. Sofia is a classic example of a good one and girls will have some role models eventually. It's just been so male dominated for years. She was lucky to have nepotism in her favour. Dad and husband!!
It's not their failure so much, just the boys club is hard to infiltrate.
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Post by marysunshine on Aug 2, 2005 17:48:47 GMT 10
Evolution will see a change in the number of female directors. Sofia is a classic example of a good one and girls will have some role models eventually. It's just been so male dominated for years. She was lucky to have nepotism in her favour. Dad and husband!! It's not their failure so much, just the boys club is hard to infiltrate. Nah, the boys club is easy to manoeuvre. Just sleep with one of them. Problem solved.
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Post by holly on Aug 2, 2005 22:55:46 GMT 10
Evolution will see a change in the number of female directors. Sofia is a classic example of a good one and girls will have some role models eventually. It's just been so male dominated for years. She was lucky to have nepotism in her favour. Dad and husband!! It's not their failure so much, just the boys club is hard to infiltrate. Nah, the boys club is easy to manoeuvre. Just sleep with one of them. Problem solved. Heehee. I have been reading Lucretia Borgia. Hard to believe all that went on with the Papacy.
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Post by 4213 on Aug 3, 2005 0:42:59 GMT 10
I must admit to laughing at Mary's post. She really got me there based on me readily accepting the casting couch paradigm.
The Borgias are just the Brady Bunch of their day surely. I am not surprised by the level of corruption at all.
I am unshockable. I was born in the wrong era clearly.
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Post by marysunshine on Aug 26, 2005 12:37:28 GMT 10
Recent news sent to me by an American friend. He didn't attach the main source other than UPI. (Rather fits in this thread).
MANCHESTER, England, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Controversial British psychologist Richard Lynn has determined men have bigger brains and higher IQs than women, the Daily Mail reported Thursday. Lynn, of the University of Ulster, and Dr. Paul Irwing, a senior lecturer in organizational psychology at the University of Manchester, analyzed the results of more than 20,000 reasoning tests taken by university students around the world. "These different proportions of men and women with high IQs may go some way to explaining the greater numbers of men achieving distinctions of various kinds of which a high IQ is required, such as chess grandmasters, Nobel prizewinners and the like," Lynn said. However, he notes the brainpower is used differently among the genders. "There is some evidence to suggest that, for any given level of IQ, women are able to achieve more than men, possibly because they are more conscientious and better adapted to sustained periods of hard work," he said. Lynn previously stirred controversy when he claimed intelligence varies with race. The report will be published by the British Journal of Psychology.
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Post by holly on Aug 28, 2005 8:43:57 GMT 10
Recent news sent to me by an American friend. He didn't attach the main source other than UPI. (Rather fits in this thread). MANCHESTER, England, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Controversial British psychologist Richard Lynn has determined men have bigger brains and higher IQs than women, the Daily Mail reported Thursday. Lynn, of the University of Ulster, and Dr. Paul Irwing, a senior lecturer in organizational psychology at the University of Manchester, analyzed the results of more than 20,000 reasoning tests taken by university students around the world. "These different proportions of men and women with high IQs may go some way to explaining the greater numbers of men achieving distinctions of various kinds of which a high IQ is required, such as chess grandmasters, Nobel prizewinners and the like," Lynn said. However, he notes the brainpower is used differently among the genders. "There is some evidence to suggest that, for any given level of IQ, women are able to achieve more than men, possibly because they are more conscientious and better adapted to sustained periods of hard work," he said. Lynn previously stirred controversy when he claimed intelligence varies with race. The report will be published by the British Journal of Psychology. Well I dispute that men are not as capable of conscientious sustained periods of work. Edison slept in his workshop, Einstein was found rocking the baby's cradle whilst doing Algebraic calculus, Shakespeare was astoundingly prolific. Look at all our past great male achievers, they lived to work. Intelligence is passed on through evolution so it stands to reason generally speaking some educated races may have the edge over others not so fortunate. As for men having bigger brains this is well known. I don't think they are more intelligent overall, but they do produce a greater number of geniuses.
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