Always online and staying connected - What do you think about the claim that this makes men dumber than women?

I’m not surprised.

-I don’t trust ‘authorities’ on IQ.
-Correlation is not causation, but it might as well be for many scholars, especially those who do popular science studies that get reported in the news.
-The access women have to education and expectations for women’s education have changed greatly around the world since 1905.

IQ Tests can be very none subjective in content. Also culturally influenced, plus biased underlined. I score retarded on tests no nasty comments.

I meant non objective

^Strewth. IQ tests were designed to measure a very specific set of traits that scientists considered ‘intelligent.’ Which often meant that people who were not the target population of this test (poor people, non-whites, women) would score lower. There’s all kinds of intelligence, and IQ tests don’t really allow for this.

yes what @bookish1 said, so well

Dumb is as dumb does.

I have no idea what IQ tests actually measure. Maybe they measure your ability to focus. But whatever they measure, I don’t think it is intelligence.

Are men dumber than women? Absolutely. No question about it. That’s why I prefer women. I just feel lucky that women like me. And when you think about it, they can’t be all that smart if they think I’m smart. So lets just call it a draw, and go make whoopie.

As stated intelligence is subjective.

The tests have changed over the years as has the education of women. Could there be a bias involved.

However I find maturity to be lacking in the male gender over female generally speaking.

Even if it’s subjective, does this mean we can ignore the dropping?

Dropping what?

Dropping our IQ.

What? ;-)

I don’t actually know if the tests have changed over time. Knowledge cultural cutting edge and the fundamentals have evolved. So it would make sense that the test should also evolve.

Now how to change the tests to continue their relevance but not effect change either positive or negative in the results?

@wundayatta – The point is, even if all the tests are somewhat flawed, if you apply the same test several times and online behavior does have an influence…

I know plenty of intelligent stoners and a lot of so called intelligent people who are luddites.

It would seem to me that during the last century opportunities for women in education and work have increased and the result should be a higher IQ. Plus, women tend to be more social and on average are better at gathering information through relationships. Maybe the social aspect of “being connected” is not as damaging (if it is at all) to the intellect of women because women are better at learning socially than men tend to be.

Tests are changing over time. For example, the SAT now has a writing component. This will be to the advantage of women, who seem to do better, on average with writing than men do. In addiction, women are now doing better on the math components of tests. Perhaps, not coincidentally, the education community has decided that word problems are the way to go. Perhaps this makes it easier for girls and harder for boys.